The rolling atrocious bullshit itunes pulls from cddb thread

Blossom Dearie and Abbey Lincoln are JAZZ, not POP, you fucking simpletons!

new Youthmovies album (complex prog-indie) is apparently "Gospel & Religious"

Don't even get me started on all the albums that are apparently 'compilations' because there is a guest artist on one or two tracks.

"Alternative & Punk" = die die die die die die die

Another couple favorites - numbering the tracks and/or putting the artists name in the titles.

Pet Peeve: The Death Of Title Case, AKA Capitalisation Of Every Word In The Title.

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Itt?

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Yeah that's one of the things I was really surprised by when I first got my iPod. I thought "oh this very popular gadget must work well..." Nope. I've got plenty of complaints, yeah.

You're responsible for what you put on your ipod, no-one else.

The Alkoholiks' second album is not self titled. It is "Coast II Coast"

at least half the CDs I rip to my computer aren't on CDDB so I have to fill in all the tags myself (and have kinda come up with my own personalized genre filing system), but with the ones that are on CDDB I just leave the tags as is until I get annoyed with some lame genre tag and change it.

genre tags are the least of my problems with the CDDB
compilations (especially imported) appear to have a 50/50 chance of either having the artist and song titles flipped or else half the information is in a language I can't type into the search bar

that applies not just to comps but basically anything from asia

hey guys a lot of times the band or label enters this information and they think it's funny to put wacky genre names on shit. like i'm guessing that's what happened here:

new Youthmovies album (complex prog-indie) is apparently "Gospel & Religious"

-- Just got offed, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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FUCK YOU MAN GENRE MEANS NOTHING TO US, NOTHING

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There are MANY recordings of classical works. Include the performer and conductor, dumbasses.

Don't even get me started on all the albums that are apparently 'compilations' because there is a guest artist on one or two tracks.

iTunes actually requires you to label it that way else it will not sort albums with guests correctly. Blame Apple.

Very well, I shall!

It's equally annoying when you have a folder for 'x featuring y' and just one song in it and it's not in the same folder as the rest of the tracks on the album.

yeah, where's the 'iTunes is fucking rubbish' thread so I can rant about how much I fucking hate iTunes?

See, I edit all of my tracks with "featuring" artists as follows:

Title: "Lollipop (f. Static Major"
Artist: Lil Wayne

rather than:

Title: "Lollipop"
Artist: Lil Wayne feat. Static Major

I feel like it keeps the artists' list cleaner.

Because you listen to albums, not tracks

I'm about 50/50 actually, but I just prefer the way it looks when I scroll through the artists list instead of seeing:

Kanye West
Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco
Kanye West feat. Lil wayne
Kanye West feat. GLC & Consequence
Kanye West feat. Your Mom

Ya know?

iTunes actually requires you to label it that way else it will not sort albums with guests correctly. Blame Apple.

Not so- for example, take the Alan Braxe and Friends Upper Cuts comp (first example I could find alphabetically). Before ripping, make sure "compilation" is unchecked, enter the individual artist names (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke, Stardust, The Paradise, etc) in the "artist" field for each song, then enter "Alan Braxe and Friends" in the "album artist" field. It'll rip all of them into an "Alan Braxe and Friends" folder, and they'll show up together in itunes as an album by "Alan Braxe and Friends" but the individual artist names will all be intact. You can also do this for hip-hop stuff with "featurings," I just put that in the song title field though.

I'm with j/v/c on this one.

i listen to tracks, not albums, and am annoyed by the multiplicity caused by "featuring..."

I've got one song by Peter Gabriel that stubbornly sits in the 'G' section and refuses to be grouped with where the rest of my Gabriel stuff is (under 'P') despite me fiddling with the tag in "Get Info". How do you explain this shit?

I get about six or seven of these on my iPod; everything pertinent is collected under each of them:

The Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones

"Alternative & Punk" = die die die die die die die

I wondered why people would enter something so crap on shit I'd d/led. Didn't realise it was an iTunes thing.

I rip everything using LAME and hand enter the data coz I'm anal.

Itunes is so pathetic in the options it gives you to sort stuff. Why can't I get albums to sort by artist not album title? Fuck you Apple.

Bimble -- probably you need to straighten stuff out in the sorting tab.

If you click on the 'artist' heading it should sort the albums by artist ?

More annoyingly, the 'albums by year' option doesn't seem to work. It sorts them artist - year - album but then goes and messes up the tracklisting.

I've got one song by Peter Gabriel that stubbornly sits in the 'G' section and refuses to be grouped with where the rest of my Gabriel stuff is (under 'P') despite me fiddling with the tag in "Get Info". How do you explain this shit?

My iTunes has Blossom Dearie as jazz, for what it's worth.

I get about six or seven of these on my iPod; everything pertinent is collected under each of them:

The Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones

Actually this is what probably makes my blood boil the most. Yes you can usually fix it, but why all the hassle?

Sorting tab? I'll look for it, Raw Patrick, thanks. I never noticed a sorting tab before.

I really couldn't give a crap about genre names. Sometimes I'll give a group of songs a really stupid genre name just so I can import it as a playlist without having to fiddle too much in iTunes.

Sorting tab is 3rd along when you do get info and determines whether stuff like "the" counts in band name or not.

To make it clearer, I get six or seven sets of:

The Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones

This thread reminded me to add "The" to the handful of Stones tracks that needed it, but I still expect to see "The Rolling Stones" repeated needlessly a half dozen times.

Hip-Hop vs hip-hop vs Hip-hop vs hip hop vs Hip Hop vs Rap

^^^^^^^^^^ that

Crazy making, but almost the only time I use "genres" is to choose from the dub albums I have . . .

So I gave up on correcting them.

I do all my genre stuff quite carefully but I dunno why coz I never use them.

"Alternative & Punk" = die die die die die die die

-- Just got offed, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:52 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

Kool G Rap and DJ Polo??!!?

Importing the five CDs of a JSP Charlie Parker comp last night, I discovered that CDDB provides a wildly different album title for each disk.

GRRRRR

Oh yeah, I had the same thing happen with Nico's Frozen Borderline double CD.

I have discovered same!! xp

That's some obnoxiousness that happens a lot with multi-disc sets.

You know that you guys can easily fix these issues en masse by selecting all the tracks to fix, doing get info, and entering the correct info for all (just one time)?

OK, not all the issues, but any that are common to all tracks selected.

Haha, yeah, and wrt to genre tags I don't really give a shit anyway. Besides, complaining is fun!

Genre tags are useful for things like random playlists if you set them yrself according to yr own notions of the artists you'd like to hear next to each other in a playlist.

Good tip, libcrypt, thanks! I was doing this track by track.

Yeah, I knew you could edit multiple items at once, but I've actually found it to be more helpful recently than I would have thought. For example, Coldplay offered a song from their new album for sale prior to their albums' release. I bought it. Then when the album came out they offered me a reduced price on it so I wouldn't have to pay for the same song twice. But I was really frustrated because I couldn't get that song to group with the album tracks no matter what I did in "get info". I found the only thing that worked was to select all the tracks and give it the album title.

Also, thanks to Raw Patrick - he was right that there was something sitting in the sorting tab that was preventing that Gabriel track from grouping with the rest!

Texas Instruments are FOLK?

new Black Boned Angel is apparently George Michael according to Itunes.

CDDB bringing the snarky smackdown to the new Black Boned Angel