iTunes Frustration
25/01/07 09:03 |
InfoTech
I'm a big fan of iTunes and I need to say that up
front because what I'm about to say will appear to be
nit picky. Yesterday I bought a song and a video by
Three Days Grace named "Animal I Have Become". I was
rating them and sorting them in my play lists when I
noticed that the video and the track listed the song
in different genres. For someone like me who uses the
ID3 tag information often this is a nusance. I now
feel like I have to check each of the songs I
download to make sure the id3 tag information is
accurate but also consistant. ID3 tags are difficult
to maintain because what is considered modern rock
today will be, by definiton, classic rock in 20-30
years. What one person may consider Metal another
person might consider Speed Metal or Death Metal. I
had hoped that by buying songs from iTunes I could
expect their conventions to be consistant which would
make my life just a bit easier. The example I sited
to them in the ticket I created is if it takes me 30
seconds to check each song after I download it and I
download 100 songs in the next year then I will have
wasted 50 minutes of my time. If you multiply 50
minutes by the number of users that iTunes currently
has then what you have is a compelling reason for
Apple to fix it on their end and save their customers
the hassle. Here's a screenshot from my iTunes
library.
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