MAESTRO MANAGER'S FOCUS IS CLASSICAL MUSIC
Maestro's Response To Questions In response to questions, Maestro displays an "ALBUM COVER VIEW" of each album that fulfilled the question's criteria. Understanding what's displayed is as simple as reading an album cover as ONE form displays all of the information written on an album's cover, with a logical location and a readily understandable label for each item. Also included are album-specific details such as ratings by critics, play prompts, and user-entered notes. With other software, you must suffer through opening form after form to display this content. Furthermore, most other management programs lack the ability to track and logically display all of these classical-music-related details.
An example of an Album Cover View displayed in response to a question. The Critics area can be turned on/off as needed.
Description Of This Album Cover View Most of the information displayed above is self-explanatory. Of particular note is the information in the Play Prompts, Musical Category, and Critic's fields.
Musical Category: Musical categories group albums—in this case "Clarinet Concertos"—with others that share the same musical category.
Play Prompts: "Sunday Morning" and "Jim" are play prompts that group this album with others that this Maestro user felt were perfect for a Sunday Morning listening session or to play when his friend Jim visits.
The Critics: "Moon 10/9" pertains to Robert Moon and Michael Gray, the co-authors of Full Frequency Stereophonic Sound. In this book, they recommend this recording and rate it a "10" in performance quality and a "9" in sound, i.e., how well the recording captured the performance. Their ratings are based on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the best. As Maestro can answer questions about the information entered in these fields, Maestro users can quickly access descriptions of any or all albums that share a specific Musical Category, Play Prompt, or recommendation by a critic including the owner of Maestro (represented by "ME!").
Gain Flexibility In How You File Albums
As discussed in the physical attributes section, Maestro includes the filing location of each copy of each album that fulfills a question's criteria. Therefore, you no longer have to group albums that share a specific category together in order to locate them. Even if your albums are filed alphabetically by conductor name, Maestro can locate each copy of each album that contains a clarinet concerto. Of course, Maestro can locate albums based on criteria that is significantly more complex than that example. The ability to pinpoint each album’s filing location provides tremendous flexibility, enabling the use of any filing strategy or strategies.
