Thread: Streaming Classical Music - the metadata problem

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Post by Fitzcaraldo215 June 4, 2015 (1 of 17)

Post by samayoeruorandajin June 4, 2015 (2 of 17)
Love Spotify. Helps me decide on what SACDs, Bluray Audio discs, or RBCDs to buy or not. And the author is wrong about finding the whole album on Spotify. If he investigated a LITTLE further, he'd find what he was looking for.

Post by rosenkavalier817 June 4, 2015 (3 of 17)
Obviously, it's not perfect. Anyone who has worked with digital files of classical music has been dealing with this problem for years to the point that users like myself end up compromising and devising their own metadata system to figure out what works for them.

At $10 a month, there is an absurd amount of material (classical and non-classical) to wade through and the benefits far outweigh the negatives for me.

Post by Ubertrout June 4, 2015 (4 of 17)
Given the prevalence of megaboxes these days, I just rip everything and put it in my Google Music Cloud for free, and then can play it from anywhere. Means I get to listen to my backlog wherever I go, and I have full control over the metadata.

Post by Kal Rubinson June 4, 2015 (5 of 17)
Fitzcaraldo215 said:

An interesting in-depth article highlighting why I personally do not use streaming services for classical music:

There is nothing new here although he is spot on about the mainstream streaming services. The ones I use make no pretension of being mainstream:

1. Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home

2. Naxos' http://www.classicsonlinehd.com/

It is interesting that the article quoted someone from the latter facility.

Post by deckerm June 4, 2015 (6 of 17)
Take a look at Roon.

Post by samayoeruorandajin June 4, 2015 (7 of 17)
Kal, no he's not. He's wrong about Spotify, for example, in finding what to look for. The author didn't do much to really do any real kind of search.

Post by Kal Rubinson June 4, 2015 (8 of 17)
samayoeruorandajin said:

Kal, no he's not. He's wrong about Spotify, for example, in finding what to look for. The author didn't do much to really do any real kind of search.

I still play with Spotify and Tidal (and others) and the problems are inherent in GUI in front of the metadata.

Post by lennyw June 5, 2015 (9 of 17)
Kal Rubinson said:

1. Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home

Last time I checked broadcasting in "HD" (compressed AAC!)

Post by samayoeruorandajin June 5, 2015 (10 of 17)
Kal Rubinson said:

I still play with Spotify and Tidal (and others) and the problems are inherent in GUI in front of the metadata.

Understood. But, I wanted to search for the following on Spotify: Schubert: Arrangements - Mats Bergström

Not hard to find at all. Merely put in the name of one of the soloists in the search field and went down the list. Now I'm listening to it on my computer. Easy peasy.

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