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A script to enable iTunes library browsing by composer
Authored by: shavenyak on Aug 01, '06 07:43:20AM

This will be a problem for you unless you ONLY have classical music in your library.

Putting wrong metadata into your song files is generally inadvisable. A better option for most users would be to add Composer to the columns shown in the Library view and click it to sort, or set up smart playlists by composer. Or just use the Search to find Bach.



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A script to enable iTunes library browsing by composer
Authored by: hamarkus on Aug 01, '06 03:43:58PM

In principle I agree about not messing with metadata, but then genre is pretty useless for me. I use it only to find my classical music. All other genres are much too loosely defined that I would be able to predict in which genre a certain song would fall or that I could predict which sort of music to find under one genre.
Browsing by genre is a nice amusing yourself by getting surprised what all has been classified under a certain genre.



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A script to enable iTunes library browsing by composer
Authored by: dhvu on Aug 03, '06 07:08:05AM

I didn't think this hint would be useful for those people that only manage a small portion of "classical" music in their libraries. I mean, if you think setting up a smart playlist for each composer would be a feasible approach, or even browsing through the entire library sorted on composer, then probably this hint is not for you.

Then also, almost everybody (look at the comments of others below) uses an information field for something it was not intended for. Why wouldn't I use the otherwise rather unuseful genre field in order to put an iTunes feature to good use? The "corruption" is, by the way, quickly undone - as you can conclude from the AppleScript.



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