Tips for tagging classical rips?


I've already ripped my collection of blues/rock/alt CDs to a hard drive. I used EAC and ripped the early files into an artist/album/track.WAV format. Later, I shifted to artist/album/trkno_track.WAV format, and wished I had started that way.

I'm now about to embark on ripping my classical music and wondering if anyone can help me avoid any bonehead errors. How have you been tagging/organizing? Since you only get one Artist field, presumably that gets used for the composer... Or, are you using that for performer? Any hints from anyone who has gone this route? What worked, what didn't?
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This is tough, because obviously classical music doesn't always lend itself to the usual tagging mechanisms (especially on compilatin discs). What I've been doing is to put the composer and orchestra both in the artist section.

For instance,

Brahms / London Symphony Orchestra

And for performer I put the soloist or conductor.

For genre, I usually use classical to lump everything (rather than concerto, orchestral, etc).

Newer software like the later versions of MusicMatch offer more tagging options, some of which are more applicable to classical music.

Just be consistent and you'll be able to maximize your organization.

I don't pretend to have the best scheme, but it's been working OK for me so far.

Later,

Michael