An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-30-2008, 11:33 AM

61 : Mis-tagged MP3s

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.

Piss Me Off · 08-30-2008, 11:39 AM

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.

lucifer_sam · 08-30-2008, 11:40 AM

Space_bars_are_overrated.

right-track · 08-30-2008, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piss Me Off

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.

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!?

Piss Me Off · 08-30-2008, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by right-track

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!?

Surely you know the name of the compilation though?

right-track · 08-30-2008, 12:05 PM

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.

FaSho · 08-30-2008, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

61 : Mis-tagged MP3s

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.

the most annoying one yet imo

jackhammer · 08-30-2008, 12:45 PM

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.

Piss Me Off · 08-30-2008, 12:50 PM

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

WaspStar · 08-30-2008, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

61 : Mis-tagged MP3s

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.

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").

08-30-2008, 11:33 AM	#521 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	61 : Mis-tagged MP3s 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. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

08-30-2008, 11:39 AM	#522 (permalink)
Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,512	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. __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape

08-30-2008, 11:40 AM	#523 (permalink)
lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	Space_bars_are_overrated. __________________ first.am

08-30-2008, 12:45 PM	#528 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	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. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

08-30-2008, 12:50 PM	#529 (permalink)
Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,512	Oh shit yes. I had a look through them and found some acoustic Mclusky. Tonights listening is sorted! __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape

08-30-2008, 12:05 PM	#526 (permalink)
right-track Atchin' Akai Join Date: May 2005 Location: Unamerica Posts: 8,723	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.

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