I don't quite know how it happened but over the past 4 or 5 years I have come to the conclusion that mis-tagged MP3s have become a crime so heinous that it ranks right up there with genocide , ethnic cleansing & mass murder.

It never used to bother me that much. When I got my first PC around 9 years ago I was only on shitty dial up (In fact have you ever noticed now that when talking about download speeds you always have to prefix 'shitty' before Dial up) and it only had a 12 gig hard drive so music was never something I used it for give or take the odd hard to find B side that I would manually record onto mini-disc.

When I suddenly found myself in the possession of a better computer (80 Gig) , broadband and an 20 Gig Ipod 3 or 4 years later this is when I first noticed the horror of mis-tagged MP3s.

There are several types of offenders

01_People_who_flat_out_refuse_to_bother_how_to_use _a_fucking_space_bar

01 01 People Who
02 02 Put the track number
03 03 Where you only need to type the song title
04 04 So It shows up
05 05 Like this
06 06 All the fucking time

61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_01_People_Who
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_02_Can't Use
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_03_A_Fucking_Space_Bar
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_04_And_Who_Insist_On_Always
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_05_Typing_Out_The_name_of
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_06_The_album_title_and_the_artist
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_07_In_every_fucking_song

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5

The last one with just 'Track 1' written is what prompted me to write this as I just downloaded an Electro Hippies album with 39 tracks on it and every single song was written as Track 1/Track 2/Track 3. I should have been happy that I got an album for free that I'd been after for ages, but the fact I had to sit down and spend ages changing 39 titles spoiled my enjoyment.
Ungrateful?
Hell yes , If you don't know how to tag an MP3 don't fucking upload them. Of course that means I lose out on an album I want and I'm being incredibly childish about the whole thing , but thats what 5 years of re-tagging MP3s does to you.

And please can my Ipod make it's fucking mind up about whether Psychocandy is by The Jesus And Mary Chain , Jesus And Mary Chain , The Jesus & Mary Chain or Jesus & Mary Chain. And not four seperate bands which it seems to think so at the moment. I'm beginning to wonder if all these newish post rock and indie bands using names with lots of stupid punctuation are doing this for this very reason , just to wind people up.

I swear all this stuff will send me into an early grave. If this list was in order this would probably be No 2 judging from the amount of 'fucks' in it.

Number of songs on WMP under 'Unknown': 101
I bet if i played them all i'd find some right belters but i just can't be arsed.

Space_bars_are_overrated.

How do you think I feel? I have to be arsed when listening to a Northern Soul comp on WMP when all I get is the unknown tag.
Have you any idea how difficult and frustrating it is, to track down the song title of a rare 60's soul track you've never heard before!? :mad:

Surely you know the name of the compilation though?

Not always. It depends on where I got the comp from.
Worst offenders are other soulie's selling rare tracks made from master tapes on home made CD's.
Even worse is when they tag them incorrectly.

the most annoying one yet imo

When I swapped over hard drives about 6 weeks ago, I deleted all un tagged tracks even if there was some belters in there. I have a few albums without tags and I am slowly retagging them. It is time consuming. I also like to have the album cover in the folder too so i'm in the process of finding covers too.

Oh shit yes. I had a look through them and found some acoustic Mclusky. Tonights listening is sorted!

I don't download music, so I can't relate to this one.

::Smug look::


(But I agree about the band names; even when ripping CD's, there are apparently three variations on "Echo & The Bunnymen").

I can't agree more. I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive about having all the music in my collection properly tagged and organized. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I knew an album in my collection had the wrong information, or was formatted improperly (incorrect capitalization and spacing, mainly).

Why would you be proud of not downloading music? Buying CDs supports the recording industry, not the artists. Most money that musicians make are from gigs and tours. At most, musicians make $1-2 from each CD, depending on contractual agreements. And if it's not a band that's capable of selling a large volume of CDs, probably far, far less.

Downloading music keeps me coherent and allows me to discover these bands which I support by seeing their acts in person. If you don't download music, you're subject to dealing with the record shops' selection. And just so you understand, there are only three independents in all of Pittsburgh. Kind of restricts your musical taste if you don't download.

I download music because I enjoy music and I actually DO want to support the recording artists. Not the other way around.

Which tagging software do you use - Tag&Rename is a godsend? Now I've just got to find a Linux version/alternative... might end up having to code one myself.


As for Phil Collins, I've just started watching Never Mind the Buzzcocks and I'm hoping he'll be the butt of plenty more jokes in other eps. :D

We get it , you like pies. Now put some clothes on , take your indie disco shite and fuck off you fucking ugly moose.

Oh wait it's not 2007
You already did.

Gah, Urban.

I don't dig fat chick softcore.

holy shit!

Imagine going down on her after she's just done a gig in a hot sweaty club.

I think I just threw up a little after reading that.

If you look at the picture above you'll know exactly the type of TV shows i'm talking about here. Ones with high speed police chases , motor racing crashes , extreme sports people falling from a great height , stunts gone wrong , surfers stacking it ... you get the idea.
Yes I watch them , and yes i'm not proud of it either but there's bugger all else to watch at 4am. And it would be nice just to watch one without some dumb speedy riff going on and on and on while the guy doing the voiceover makes endless unfunny jokes. Occasional you'll get a singer during this 'song' who won't actually sing anything he'll just go 'RRRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR' every few minutes. I don't know why I even need to tell you as I bet you have it in your head as soon as you saw the picture.

Personally i'd use classical music , I think seeing cars piling up into each other to that may even be poetic.

I love that stuff. :thumb:

Benny Hill music would be perfect.

Stankiest twat ever. You'd probably pop your head up like a gofer after catching a whiff. That shit is NAAAAAASTY.

Mark E Smith says in his autobiography that teen-age rebellion is a very middle class thing because most working class kids appreciate what their parents did for them.

After coming of age around the time that Riot grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl came around I can only agree with this. I didn't know any normal girls that were into Riot grrrrrrrrr(ok i'm bored of doing this now)rrrrrrrrrrrrl. The only girls I was aware of into this stuff were gobby middle class girls who looked down on anyone who lived in a smaller house than them and had a chip on their shoulder because their parents bought them the wrong car or something.

I'd like to say that this is a big stereotype but it isn't. My best friend's girlfriend used to hang out with one of these morons on a regular basis. she even tried to set me up with her on account of 'you're into punk and so is she , you'll go well together'
Sadly it didn't work out , Sitting around her house on a Saturday night listening to some shitty Babes In Toyland album while she played with her underarm hair wearing a t shirt that hadn't seen washing power in 3 months wasn't quite what I would call fun. and I did find it quite funny that while she called herself a feminist and bored everybody to tears about it she'd still end up trying to get a sympathy fuck out of any guy her best friend bought round , (No I didn't BTW).
As for the music itself , I have nothing against women doing punk. I have Slits albums , Shonen Knife albums , Siouxsie Sioux albums , X Ray Spex albums , Delta 5 albums ..............and so on and so on. I just can't stand this kind of stuff , granted it's not aimed at me , but it's there so I can comment on it.

I hate it

There thats it. So take your Bikini Kill albums , your feminist books , your ugly clothes , your stupid pink/purple/green hair and your thick rimmed glasses, get in the kitchen & make me a fucking sandwich.

Where the hell do I start here.

It would be too easy to put Kiss in here but I don't want to. For a start I quite like a few of their albums. Secondly I don't think Paul Stanley deserves to be anywhere near this list. I've never heard anything about his private life , he still goes around with his own band playing club shows , which to me shows he still has a huge enjoyment from playing music and personally I think he carries himself in a pretty dignified way for someone who's as big a rock star as he is.

And then we have Gene Simmons

As someone who started off liking Kiss I found that the more I found out what this man was like the more I hated him. Now i'm not one of these people with an indie holier than thou attitude who'll deride any band for making something thats quite obviously commercial. If you set out to do that and make a success of it then well done , even more well done if you do that and make something that I can enjoy.
But Simmons just seems to get greedier & greedier. When someone says that some of the stuff you do to make money drags the bands name through the dirt you could pass it off unwanted criticism from a 'hater' , when another member of Kiss saying that it's probably safe to say that you are.
Never mind Gene , you just keep on replacing Ace's & Peter's , having your spoilt brats in a TV show, wearing that stupid wig you've been wearing since the early 80s and making really shit Prodigy covers while dressed as a pimp in a pathetic attempt to gain credibility, you won't get a single penny out of me. You might be the image of Kiss , but you were never the talent behind it , not that you care anyway.

Recommended Veiwing : The Gene Simmons sex tape , where the girl he's with flat out refuses to kiss him :laughing:

Oh and the licence holder for this sex tape ... A certain Mr G Simmons.

I <3 your Riot Grrl one.

Feminists are annoying, especially feminist punk rockers.

I like Bikini Kill :(

Ladyboy

Sexist

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Meh, I'll take "I Kissed A Girl".

Now I think it's really mean to say stuff like that about someones weight, then again Beth Ditto is a huge attention whore who goes around insulting other womens appearance (seriously) when she looks like the fat drag queen guy from those John Waters movies. She seems bitter towards any woman more attractive than her, which means she has her hands full. And for that I would pity her for her insecurity, that is if she wasn't such a talentless and mean spirited media hog. Quite the loathsome creature.

Plus she says she dosen't use deodorant, which is horrifying considering how sweaty she gets. I bet she smells like a buffalo's assh*le that someone just barfed in.

And f*cking A about Gene Simmons.

not to mention all that...the gossip just suck
they really are music for people who think NME has cred
famous for being grossly obese? thats a new one.

a side not: **** gene simmons

The thing about Beth Ditto is, she bangs on and on about how dangerous it is for models to be underweight as they're bad role models, then she parades herself naked on mag covers? I guess it's fine for young girls to be obese and massive twats then?

surely being massively obese is just as bad for as being skeletally thin....

Waaaaaay to easy.

Mind you so is she.



If you are going to hate on someone hate them for being an annoying attention seeking rancid talentless junkie piece of human filth who makes terrible records. Y'know like the rest of us do. Don't hate her because of some half baked conspiracy theory that she killed your precious idol. I bet most of all STILL only listen to shitty grunge albums 15 years later , which means you probably own all of fucking Hole's albums anyway.

It still pains me to agree with Nirvana fanboys/girls over something :(

56 should be higher.

It's not in order

Ah.. I forgot that bit.

But yea, Hole is awful.

I may put them all in order when it get to no2 or something.

Love Hole, indifferent towards Courtney.

I was holding out for a simple "#55: Nirvana Fans," but I'll take what I can get.