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Better support for classical music?

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Hi there,

I use TEN via the SmartMix Plugin on Logitech Media Server with Streaming Services like Spotify, Deezer, Google Play Music and Qobuz (my favourite). Sadly, it is only of limited use for classical music and (classical) Soundtracks for several reasons.

The first reason (IMHO) is, that TEN apparently doesn't distinguish between "Composer" and "Artist". For Pop/Rock/etc genres this is OK, but for classical music this is a no-go, since the "Artist" is secondary to the "Composer" when looking up tracks/albums. I hope this can be adjusted to make TEN more useful for classical repertoire.

The second issue is, that for some resaon the Mixed I get when I use the classical Genre and create a "genre radio", then it tends to get repetitive very quickly. I also mostly get "easy classics" which is unfortunate. As an example: I get several reruns of "The Swan" from the "Carneval of Animals" and of the "Moonlight Sonata" in almost every mix. There are some other candidates that keep on repeating, somtimes within only a few tracks of each other.

A lesser issue, but a very annoying one is, that if I create a classical genre radio I tend to get "popped up" versions of certain pieces...that can be quite terrible!!! It's also quite startling, since the pop versions are usually quite a bit louder than the originals. Checking the genre tag would help prevent this...

Lastly, if I start a "mix" with a film soundtrack, say "Indiana Jones", then I'd expect to get a Playlist with more classical soundtracks. Sadly TEN does not seem to make a difference here and just throws in any kind of film soundtrack, which makes this unuseable for me...Google Play Music has it's own auto-playlisting and handles this pretty much perfectly, so it is doable. I hope TEN can be improved to be more "accurate" in this respect.

Thanks.


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