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How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

I'm just starting with Foobar - how do people use it for classical music?

What standards, tools, configs, databases?

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #1 –
personally, i just listen to it without any EQs, configs or anything like that.

although, i do use ReplayGain so that all of my albums are at the same loudness. i also set the files that have replaygain to get a +9dB increase(Output section in foobar2000's config) since 89dB is kind of low...

also, since it seems you just recently joined, welcome to the forum

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #2 –


foo_ui_colums
foo_uie_albumlist (sort by composer)
foo_uie_albumart
foo_uie_trackinfo


Layout:
Horizontal Splitter
------Vertical Slitter
------------Album List
------Vertical Splitter
------------Horizontal Splitter
-------------------Track Info
-------------------Album Art
------------Columns Playlist

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: Kiteroa on
I'm just starting with Foobar - how do people use it for classical music?
Out of curiosity (I don't use foobar myself but love classical music), how do you deal with movements of a long composition (e.g. Bruckner symphony, opera etc.)? Do you listen to the whole work or do you prefer single movements ? What about shorter pieces like quartets or sonatas ? Do you mix different performances (e.g. I:Karajan II:Klemperer III:Kleiber)?

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Kees de Visser on
Quote from: Kiteroa on
I'm just starting with Foobar - how do people use it for classical music?
Out of curiosity (I don't use foobar myself but love classical music), how do you deal with movements of a long composition (e.g. Bruckner symphony, opera etc.)? Do you listen to the whole work or do you prefer single movements ? What about shorter pieces like quartets or sonatas ? Do you mix different performances (e.g. I:Karajan II:Klemperer III:Kleiber)?


however you like? though personally, mixing performances isn't really my thing, and just listening to a single movement usually makes me want to listen to the rest as well (that said, i don't do bruckner or opera )

WRT the OP question: you can do quite a lot with welltagged files+a well-configured albumlist_panel. (mine being %composer%|$if2($if($strcmp($left(%album%,4),the ),$right(%album%,$sub($len(%album%),4)),%album%),Unknown Album) [{%contentgroup%}][|[%conductor% - ][%ensemble%]][|%date%[ - %performer%]] )

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #5 –
My classical collection contains 1 performance per album, as such I find the playback order of "Shuffle (Album)" to be very useful when listening to classical pieces because as others have said, listening to mixed movements just isn't the same.

The only thing really special about classical pieces is that I include %conductor% and %composer% in the tags.

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #6 –
I have quite a complicated columns setup somewhere where I can sort by composer, performer, work, album and maybe even a couple of other tags. But Quod Libet handles everything just as well and more simply so I don't really use foobar2000 any more.

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #7 –
I split my collection strictly by work, no matter what cd they are from. Additionally to the standard tags, I use %composer%, %conductor%, %ensemble% and %work%. I chose ensemble because it can either hold an orchestras name or the name (and participants) of smaller ensembles. But I listen to orchestral late romatics, so there's the orchestras name in general.

In my trackinfo mod panel I display special fonts with different probabilities when playing classical music, here's the code to see how it works:

Code: [Select]
$if($or($strstr(%path%,Klassik),$strstr($lower($meta(genre)),classic)),
$ifgreater($right($crc32(%directory%),3),667,
$font(ShelleyAllegro BT,68,bold,),
$ifgreater($right($crc32(%directory%),3),500,
$font(ShelleyAndante BT,68,bold,),
$ifgreater($right($crc32(%directory%),3),333,
$font(ShelleyVolante BT,68,bold,),
$ifgreater($right($crc32(%directory%),3),292,
$font(FlemishScript BT,70,bold,),
$ifgreater($right($crc32(%directory%),3),250,
$font(KunstlerschreibschDbol,68,,),
$font(Amazone BT,68,,)))))
)

Quote from: Kees de Visser on
Quote from: Kiteroa on
I'm just starting with Foobar - how do people use it for classical music?
Out of curiosity (I don't use foobar myself but love classical music), how do you deal with movements of a long composition (e.g. Bruckner symphony, opera etc.)? Do you listen to the whole work or do you prefer single movements ? What about shorter pieces like quartets or sonatas ? Do you mix different performances (e.g. I:Karajan II:Klemperer III:Kleiber)?
No, I don't mix them. But hey, with Bruckner it's easy: Get the late bpo/wand and you're almost done, at least with sym. nos. 4,5,7,8,9.

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #8 –
Well, I know this may be a little naive, but how difficult would it be to implement the "labels" that GMail uses in foobar?

  I just think that it would work really well, because I could then choose what to browse through, be it the musician/ ensemble ( say Jascha Heifetz, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphonic, ...), the conductor, composer, album, era, etc.
 
  Right now, all I do is set up a large variety of tags with all this info, but sifting through it and transitioning between works can get to be a pain, but I'ld really like it, and since I've only used foobar for 2 weeks, I haven't had the chance to see if this exists.

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #9 –
I don' use tags, I use folders (it's sooo 1990s, isn't it? ;-) ). I find tags not to work very well with classical, and even if they worked well, I'd be too lazy to tag all files properly. What I was getting from freedb or such was terribly messy.

My folder structure goes like:
Z:\Music\Classical\#Bach\Concertos\Harpsichord\BWV1054\Musica Alta Ripa
Z:\Music\Classical\#Beethoven\String Quartets\Op. 59 No. 3\Gabrieli SQ
Z:\Music\Classical\#Webern\Orchestral\Passacaglia Op. 1\Boulez
etc.

I use DUI, with a playlist or a few playlists per composer, sometimes I set up ad-hoc playlists, though more often I use "Add to Playback Queue"

To display the folder structure nicely in the DUI I use
$replace($substr(%path%,$add($strstr(%path%,#),1),$sub($strstr(%path%,%filename%),2)),\,'    ')

Typically I listen to entire works, but sometimes to single movements.
Ceterum censeo, there should be an "%is_stop_after_current%".

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #10 –
I'm still wondering, though, if there exists a program such that we may use labels to organise music as opposed to just tags?

EDIT:
I just realised that if you don't use GMail, this would be analogous to cloud tags in blogs.

How do you use foobar2000 for classical music?

Reply #11 –
Quote from: simple.physicist on
I'm still wondering, though, if there exists a program such that we may use labels to organise music as opposed to just tags?

EDIT:
I just realised that if you don't use GMail, this would be analogous to cloud tags in blogs.

Did you try the Facets UI Element together with some multi-valued tag that could hold your labels? E.g. I use the field STYLE with >1 value per song and using several Facets displaying the same column you could realise that tag-like approach known from blogs. Ask if you need more details for how to do it.