Classical music on iPod Classic?

Thanks TT2.

This is how I am doing now, but your suggestion is appreciated as the only one possible at this moment. However, I still hope that Apple agreed to users who love classical music and give us an acceptable solution.

Ok Király.

Your suggestion is welcome. I didn't know this possibility through *+formally requested+*.
I've just send Apple my request.

Thanks.

Well, no answer to my suggestion about the iPod Classic interface for classical music.
I did it on may 23th. I'm not waiting for an inmediate solution, but, at least, an answer telling me that Apple take consideration my suggestion for the future…
I don't think that Apple is interesting in this problem. The users that love the classical music, perhaps we are enough important in quantity and/or quality for wake up interest to Apple.
Now, I reiterate my advice in: If you are thinking to buy an iPod Classic for your classical music collection, DO NOT DO IT. Wait to Apple take a solution for the problem.

Message was edited by: bachlover

Thanks, Reicha-to-Reich, you're very kind… but I fear that Apple doesn't have interest with the people that love the classical music.
We are a little minority in comparation to the rest of melomans and our shopping to iTunes Store aren't important in the amount of cashed money.
That's the world! Perhaps one day the miracle happens

Problems in iPod Classic interface to use with classical music:

1). For use in “Cover Flow” mode is necesary give the composer name in the artist field if desired an acceptable organization.

2). Obviusly, in this way is impossible know the interpreters (artist) names because we have losed the field where you enter this information.

3). In classical music is usual various names in interpreters (artist) names: there are a few cases with only one (Daniel Barenboim, piano) or someone with two (Concentus Musicus Wien · Nikolaus HARNONCOURT, conductor), but if you are a real music lover you’ll like get all iformation possible (Budapesti Kvartett: Josep ROISMAN & Alexander SCHNEIDER, violins · Boris KRYOT, alto · Mischa SCHNEIDER, cello).

4). Also is important details about recording as: Recording: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. July 1979.

5). Some of this information can enter in the “lyrics” window. In fact, there are sung works that need this one.

6). The only one way to classify the works in classical music is taking a work as an album and its movements as the “songs” in this album. Example: album +*Concerto a cinque in D minor, for oboe, strings and continuo, Op. 9 No. 2+*, songs: *+I. Allegro e non presto+*, *+II. Adagio+*, *+III. Allegro+*. At first view this isn’t a problem, but if you have only one work of a composer (author), when you view your collection as an album list and open this composer, you can see the songs list (movements), but not the album name (work name).

7). If you use the little app only for Mac “JoinTogether” ([www.dougscripts.com]), you can solve some of these problems. This app join every movements of a work as only one m4a file with chapters (one for each movement, keeping its name) and you can use the work name as the song name. When play this files in iTunes, in the small window above you can see the first line show the work (song) name and the second line show the artist, the album and the chapters names alternatively. This is a good solution for “*+PROKOFIEV: The Complete Symphonies+*” where you can use this data as the album name and, perhaps, is easy to find any name for other cases, but this don’t work for iPod interface because it isn’t able to show the chapters names as iTunes.

This thread have much to talk for the classical music lovers and I hope that all the people that have the same problem *spend a little of its time participate with its opinion until get a response from Apple*.