Matching Classical albums gives us some challenges that we don't usually have with Pop/Rock albums.
Very Long Song Titles
Classical releases can often have long titles because according to the
MusicBrainz Classical Guidelines if they are part of a work they should contain the
Work title in each song title, for example
here. And Operas should contain each
act or
scene as in
here. This means when matching existing song titles it takes longer because there are more words to match, it is also harder to match because these guidelines don't reflect as accurately what is written on the cover as for non-classical releases.
Very Large Releases
Because many classical composers catalogues are out of copyright it is inexpensive for music publishers to release large box sets of a composers output. One such example is the 100 CD Complete Works Beethoven release. Its actually too large to show reliably in MusicBrainz so instead I show the results of a
search .Trying to match songs to large releases is invariably more time consuming than smaller releases because there are so many permutations to consider, actually expotentially more.
Solutions
Both of the problems are addressed in
SongKong 3.7 together with some more improvements, full details
here
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