rant on cddb

[acroyear]

whoever enters the listings for classical music sucks and i want to kill him.

he (well, it *could* be a she, but guys are more geeky for doing this sort of thing) has a knack (about 40% of the entries are like this) for using the "artist" field to store the movement details and leave the main track title as the overarching title.  e.g., for Bernstein's cd of Copeland pieces, the cddb entry has tracks 9-12 all titled "Copeland: Rodeo", with track 9's artist listed as "1. Buckaroo Holiday", yada for the other three.

Yes, its nice that they felt like separating things. However, iTunes and most other mp3 rippers use the artist field to sort by, which means that for this CD, every track will end up in its own folder, unless I change it before I rip, which even in iTunes is a painfully tedious amount of work I simply don't have the time for.

jerk.

Comments

How I Get Around This...

[rennfoole.livejournal.com]

Joe, what I usually do is, as soon as the disc is finished ripping is go into "recently added" where all the tracks will be somewhat separated. Then I do a "get info" on all the improperly listed tracks and change all the important info. I realize this still a chore but, at least, there are fewer tracks to look through by doing it this way.

And, unfortunately, this problem is rampant in other genres, as well, on cddb. My pet peeve is that each disc of a two-disc set will be labeled differently!

Re: How I Get Around This...

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

This is completely random but I *love* your icon. (rennfoole) Where did you get it? For the Birds is one of the funniest cartoons ever!

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

I've taken to double-checking the CD info before ripping the CD. I've dealt with too many CDs where some yahoo has misspelled song titles, marked a non-compilation CD as a comilation, even seen things where people have put their names or online handles in the Composer field. And if I make corrections, I submit my corrections.

This is the problem with services that depend on user input for their data. You have to double-check everything.

Doc