iTunes Frustration
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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