There are a couple of threads running about classical compositions at the moment. The thought is that big libraries cause more issues than smaller to medium ones.
I just thought it would be nice to get a feel for the general size of libraries and what kind of split there is Classical: Non Classical. Since the composition issues are obviously mainly on Classical stuff.
My thought is that maybe there are not that many really big classical libraries causing issues
Could I suggest 3 basic stats
No Of Albums (Obviously Box Sets will show in the Focus stats as a “Single Album” and maybe 10 discs , how do we get around that)
% Classical
Max Number of any Individual work (if we care to admit our obsessions )
for example mine is
Albums 4285 (Files 85496)
Classical 50%
Max single work (Moonlight Sonata ) 31
So 70% jazz and 20% classical. That leaves 10% of what…? (I myself, for example, am pretty schizofrenic: in the summer, I listen to world music a lot).
I am hitting repeated problems where I have a lot of recordings of the same work and only a portion show in the composition view.
It could be non main stream labels etc not being ID’ed. The big problem is if you have 31 versions of a work , you can miss one without really noticing BUT it doesn’t make it right.
I am also seeing the composition in 2 formats eg
Piano Sonata No.1 in F Minor Op.2/1
and
Piano Sonata No.1 Op.2/1 in F Minor
Approximate, from memory. Away from home at the moment
8,500 albums
140k tracks
50% Classical
67 Wagner Tannhäuser’s
I have a lot of single flac cue’s, ape’s and iso’s that roon doesn’t recognise. I don’t know how many. I gave up trying to convert them in any consistent way some time ago. I just randomly convert them when in the mood, but I have more time on my hands away from home and may give it another go. Mostly I just play them from JRiver or Foobar.
I find identification and grouping of compositions a much bigger problem than identification of albums. Because I am travelling so much at the moment I have been trying to build a much smaller travel library where I will often have just one performance of a work. So if roon doesn’t identify that single version (even when it has identified the album) I actually am finding that the single biggest problem I have is with a smaller Classical library, not a larger Classical library.
Of course I don’t have 67 Tannhäuser’s. But roon thinks I have. The reason is that if I have a selection for example of 10 arias scattered around on a box set then roon thinks that is 10 Tannhäuser’s and not 1 incomplete Tannhäuser.
So 70% jazz and 20% classical. That leaves 10% of what…? (I myself, for example, am pretty schizofrenic: in the summer, I listen to world music a lot).
