Firstly, I should I say I do appreciate the comments regarding this - they have all made me rethink the way I tag classical music, which is great.
However, I feel that the topic of this thread hasn't been completely understood (often because other users don't agree that it is as necessary as I do). Although I may not have made this as clear as I should have, I am mainly talking about simplifying and compacting the visual volume of data I have. As with most others, I have all or more of the following data for most classical tracks:
Composer
Conductor
Performer(s)
Catalogue number(s)
Opus number
Opus name
Work number
Work name
Movement number
Movement name
Tempo
With operas, one may require several performers, a director, a conductor etc.
Some people even want to include the instruments that some performers play
It is this very detail which I have been suggesting needs a way of managing in terms of visual availability (i.e. hide/show)
I really like redwing's method of tagging, and I agree that MB should try to accomodate this. However, I think it's a separate (but related) wish.
To my experience this way of entering 'movements' or 'parts' has two advantages:
1. If you play ONE track, without the surrounding movements/parts, you still have all the relevant information
One thing to note is that I think every movement should contain all of its "parent" information, but should not always be visible in a linear form. Redwing's and WimYogya's titles are all really long, and make navigation more complicated for me. Hiding the movements of a work is useful because they are not overly relevant unless you are playing them right now. Whilst browsing, everyone knows that the 3rd movement of the moonlight sonata is contained within the work "moonlight sonata", so we save space by hiding. The now playing bar, notification popup, taskbar etc. can all contain the FULL title if people really want it, but I think the option of trimming what we see of these ridiculously long titles is useful. That was my intended topic of this thread.
Thanks