Classical Music in Ipod help plz.

Cullhaven

Cullhaven

Hernes Son
Just cleared my iphone and wanting to put lots of classical music on it. Problem is, how do I get, say, a symphony with four movememts to play properly?

And how do I ensure that the IPOd plays the correct movement for that symphony? For example, Motzardts x symphony might have :

Movement 1 adagio
movement 2 allegro
movement 3 minuette
Movement 4 andante

His symphony y might have

Movement 1 andante
Movement 2 allegro
movement 3 minuette
movement 4 adagio

can the ipod always choose the correct file to play with thecorrect symphony if they have similar naming conventions ? If I put all 40 Symphonies on, there might be 20 movement 2 adagios.

And what about an opera? If I copy all the tracks of an opera will the Ipod play them in the right order, one after the other?

Always just used the Ipod for single tracks before so not sure if it can play a whole album?
Any suggestions gratefully recieved
 
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StGeorge

Full Member
I've got a load of classical albums on my iPhone and they generally play OK. Sometimes iTunes puts tracks in a different album if it hasn't got the metadata right from CDDB or wherever but I usually manually put them back in the right album and they tend to stay there.

The one thing it won't do, which can be a pain especially for operas is that if two tracks/movements/arias follow with no gap the iPhone always puts a gap in. A prime example is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. The last two tracks, The Hut on Chicken Legs and The Great Gate of Kiev merge dramatically into one another but on my iPhone there is always a half-second pause which tends to ruin the moment.
 
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30ftSmurf

Full Member
If you use itunes to import your music from CD, you can eliminate the gaps by making itunes do exactly the above (join the movements into a single track):

Select all the tracks, then go to advanced->join CD tracks and then when you import it'll create a single track.

If you've already got the files, you can use audacity to do the same (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).
 
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