Labelling Music Collection

[a 1 player]

Is it just that I'm overly anal, or does anyone else get stresses when their music collection is not labeled correctly? I have about 26,000 songs in my iTunes collection, and it is a SOB to get the titles, song names, genre, album names and ratings all correct. Not to mention removing duplicates and ensuring the song names begin with capital letters.

I just downloaded a bulk file with 600 or so songs, and over half of them are not labeled correctly. Now I have to take hours to get everything in order again. Sometimes it seems more trouble than it's worth.

Why can't people just get their shit in order before putting it online?

 

[boatbuilder]

Now I have to take hours to get everything in order again. Sometimes it seems more trouble than it's worth.

Interesting... I've noticed that I hardly ever bother to download anything anymore--- because the search and organization time makes paying Steve Jobs another $1 per track seem cheaper in the long run.

What value do you put on your time?

 

[WoodPeckr]

Why can't people just get their shit in order before putting it online?

That's why I like newsgroups.
Most music there is labeled correctly, in fact some is overdone in this respect. There is still random music there but I just avoid it.

 

[A.J. Raven]

Is it just that I'm overly anal, or does anyone else get stresses when their music collection is not labeled correctly? I have about 26,000 songs in my iTunes collection, and it is a SOB to get the titles, song names, genre, album names and ratings all correct. Not to mention removing duplicates and ensuring the song names begin with capital letters.

I just downloaded a bulk file with 600 or so songs, and over half of them are not labeled correctly. Now I have to take hours to get everything in order again. Sometimes it seems more trouble than it's worth.

Why can't people just get their shit in order before putting it online?

This irritates me too. I spend time every so often going into the properties of the file and fixing it. I'm a bit of a music nerd, so I know pretty much everything in the genres I like; which makes the labeling task reasonably easy for me. It's difficult to believe so many people think they are right when they are so obviously wrong. And these people presumably have jobs & drive & such... makes me wonder what other types of mistakes they make daily because they are so sure they are "right" and do not check their info.

 

[a 1 player]

Interesting... I've noticed that I hardly ever bother to download anything anymore--- because the search and organization time makes paying Steve Jobs another $1 per track seem cheaper in the long run.

What value do you put on your time?

at $.99 per song, not $26,000 that is for sure.

 

[Edifice]

I notice this too with iTunes and it irks me.

When you go into 'My Documents' and 'iTunes music' on your pc, I notice not all of the artists songs are in the album folder.

It's like iTunes creates more folders to throw the music that is not labelled correctly.

 

[tboy]

I hear you, I'm not that anal about things but some people have NO brain when it comes to naming songs. WHat I hate worse is when this MISname songs. Like Smoke on the water by ZZ TOP? What are you, on DRUGS? lol......

 

[The Bandit]

Is it just that I'm overly anal, or does anyone else get stresses when their music collection is not labeled correctly? I have about 26,000 songs in my iTunes collection, and it is a SOB to get the titles, song names, genre, album names and ratings all correct. Not to mention removing duplicates and ensuring the song names begin with capital letters.

I just downloaded a bulk file with 600 or so songs, and over half of them are not labeled correctly. Now I have to take hours to get everything in order again. Sometimes it seems more trouble than it's worth.

Why can't people just get their shit in order before putting it online?

Buy the titles and then you can organize them any way you want. That's too bad that you have to do all that work after getting it all for "FREE".

 

[a 1 player]

That's too bad that you have to do all that work after getting it all for "FREE".

I know, damn shame isn't it.

 

[Ben Hogan]

It pisses me off big time!