Crippling Classical Music On iPods

Digital music players are great… for pop music. For classical? Well, the way music is indexed on these things makes it impossible to sort and search. It’s a nightmare. “It’s enough to make you scream. Before classical music is ever going to take off in digital downloads, the whole classical-recording database–this is a mammoth job, but it’s got to be tackled–will have to be rejiggered. Music has to show up correctly labeled, and fully searchable, by composer, composition and performers (with each artist’s role correctly specified).”