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So I'm playing with my new ipod, and much like my last one, it has set off a frenzy of retagging.
First off, there are the songs that are tagged wrong. Primus didn't sing Detachable Penis. Neither did the Butthole surfers. Nick Cave did an album with Kylie Minogue. Not with Kate Bush and not with PJ Harvey. He did a song or two with PJ Harvey, but that doesn't mean every female who sings with him is PJ Harvey.
Then there is the annoying iTunes habit of paying attention to upper and lower case. Guns N Roses first album was Appetite for Destruction. It was also appetite for destruction, Appetite For Destruction and even Appetite for Destruction . (Yes, the space at the end made iTunes think it was another album.)
Is Nine Inch Nails rock, industrial, darkwave or electronic? I can't keep the hundreds of sub-genres of techo stright. Is this song techno, EBM, darkwave, trance, house, or what?
Sometimes there are strange logic puzzles. If a CD has ten tracks in iTunes, why does Google say it has twelve? If iTunes says there are 15 songs, why does the CD only list twelve?
Part of the problem is that when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
litovka and I lived together years ago, I grabbed her entire mp3 collection and merged it with mine. Remember the scene in the movie The Fly where the Fly and the teleporter merged into this twisted thing? It's like that, but with mp3 tags instead of gooey bits.
Some of it is just cultural. I see a band named "Lube" and I think they are a sex-crazed techno group trying to rip off Lords of Acid. A quick listen and I realize it's Russian folk songs and the band is pronounced "Loo-bay"
Finally, when I tell it to show duplicate songs, why does it show me four different version of the same Nine Inch Nails song? There's the one on Broken, Fixed and two live versions. All are different sizes and lenghts and are tagged as being off different albums. Why can't it figure out these are not the same song?
I hate iTunes, but I love my little black ipod.
The two most valuable sites for any obsessive compulsive music geek doing what I'm doing:
http://www.coversproject.com - keeps track of all covers of a song
http://www.google.com/musicsearch - I loves me some Google
First off, there are the songs that are tagged wrong. Primus didn't sing Detachable Penis. Neither did the Butthole surfers. Nick Cave did an album with Kylie Minogue. Not with Kate Bush and not with PJ Harvey. He did a song or two with PJ Harvey, but that doesn't mean every female who sings with him is PJ Harvey.
Then there is the annoying iTunes habit of paying attention to upper and lower case. Guns N Roses first album was Appetite for Destruction. It was also appetite for destruction, Appetite For Destruction and even Appetite for Destruction . (Yes, the space at the end made iTunes think it was another album.)
Is Nine Inch Nails rock, industrial, darkwave or electronic? I can't keep the hundreds of sub-genres of techo stright. Is this song techno, EBM, darkwave, trance, house, or what?
Sometimes there are strange logic puzzles. If a CD has ten tracks in iTunes, why does Google say it has twelve? If iTunes says there are 15 songs, why does the CD only list twelve?
Part of the problem is that when
litovka and I lived together years ago, I grabbed her entire mp3 collection and merged it with mine. Remember the scene in the movie The Fly where the Fly and the teleporter merged into this twisted thing? It's like that, but with mp3 tags instead of gooey bits.Some of it is just cultural. I see a band named "Lube" and I think they are a sex-crazed techno group trying to rip off Lords of Acid. A quick listen and I realize it's Russian folk songs and the band is pronounced "Loo-bay"
Finally, when I tell it to show duplicate songs, why does it show me four different version of the same Nine Inch Nails song? There's the one on Broken, Fixed and two live versions. All are different sizes and lenghts and are tagged as being off different albums. Why can't it figure out these are not the same song?
I hate iTunes, but I love my little black ipod.
The two most valuable sites for any obsessive compulsive music geek doing what I'm doing:
http://www.coversproject.com - keeps track of all covers of a song
http://www.google.com/musicsearch - I loves me some Google
