I pretty aggressively re-tag my classical collection, since AFAIK there's no online store or CD database which comes close to getting the information right on a consistent basis.
So, for example, right now I'm listening to the first movement of Dvořák's cello concerto; I've tagged the track as follows:
When I bought the CD years ago, of course, CDDB filled in the "artist" as "Antonin Dvorak".
Keeping all the metadata correct has been a royal pain, but worth it in terms of being able to quickly find things and generate playlists keying off things like the composer field.
As an aside, I notice that Amazon's MP3 download page for the above recording does actually seem to display the right data for at least some fields -- I don't plan to buy it again to find out whether they got the whole thing right, though. And sometimes iTunes gets the "grouping" field right for multi-movement works, though not with enough frequency to avoid the need for lots of manual re-tagging.
So, for example, right now I'm listening to the first movement of Dvořák's cello concerto; I've tagged the track as follows:
http://static.b-list.org/files/itunes-classical-metadata.png
When I bought the CD years ago, of course, CDDB filled in the "artist" as "Antonin Dvorak".
Keeping all the metadata correct has been a royal pain, but worth it in terms of being able to quickly find things and generate playlists keying off things like the composer field.
As an aside, I notice that Amazon's MP3 download page for the above recording does actually seem to display the right data for at least some fields -- I don't plan to buy it again to find out whether they got the whole thing right, though. And sometimes iTunes gets the "grouping" field right for multi-movement works, though not with enough frequency to avoid the need for lots of manual re-tagging.