One letter makes all the difference
Posted by Simon Hoyle on 16 June 2008 - 10:14am.
Loading the Now Hear This CD into the iPod and noticed that the Half Man Half Biscuit track was listed as "Blue Badger Abuser" – still sounds like a Half Man Half Biscuit song title, albeit more surreal and unsavoury...
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Another example of CDDB abuse
...is found when you fire up iTunes and insert the excellent "Rogue's Gallery" CD of Sea Shanty covers.The track "A Dying Sailor To His Shipmates", sung by Bono, is credited to "That Wanker Bono". The HMHB mis-titling on the latest Word CD certainly made me giggle, too. Anyone got any other examples? Do we have a genre here?
That is brilliant, and
is possibly the only good reason why I should expose any of my CDs to iTunes (I use a non iPod MP3 player). Does the web database that Nero uses have the same wonderful slander present?
I'll have to dig out my copy and check now!
In the days of Napster being file sharing
I once downloaded Blue Is The Colour by Chelsea and put all manner of filth in the notes etc. Still rather proud that I could muster such a juvenile act at the age of 30. And I had about 10 people download it over time.
Guilty me lud
I confess to having typed the buggers in (see comments on first track) - next time I'll go the whole hog and type them in properly.....
BTW pvincent's post had me in stitches.....
I'm glad
that I waited - the first couple of times I inserted the latest cover CD, CDDB reported back "no match found", and I was feeling too idle to key in the track names myself (though I've done it a few times before, public-spirited me). I'm glad my laziness was so hilariously rewarded - a lesson there for us all, I feel. As for the Bono track, I just checked, and CDDB still credits the track the same way.
What do you mean?
You created the track listing as used by Gracenotes? Shouldn't Word do these in advance?
Why should they?
They put enough effort into giving (well OK, they're not really "free", but still...) us these splendid discs each month. What we do with them (e.g. ripping them with iTunes) is none of their concern. Personally I'm happy to key the tracklists from time to time, for the greater good.
Earth to LOUD
..............................yes I did key it in (weeks ago)! And getting all consultanty about it, we could do with a few standards - I like them all to be together on the Pod but various people give different names - I like "Word - Now Hear This - Month ##" as a standard title. Hmmm. back to work.