iTunes is stupid
Really stupid. Stupid iTunes.
So, yesterday, someone asked me what portable media players were Windows Media compatible, because they'd ripped all their CDs using Windows Media Player and it wouldn't let her put the music on her ipod. So, after a short amount of research I discovered the iTunes for Windows can convert from WMA to AAC with minimal fuss, so no need to buy a new player. She asked how, and I had no idea so I thought I'd grab a CD and test the theory.
The CD I grabbed was this one*. Lets see the track listing:
1. Prelude
2. Slam
3. Plastic World - Pendulum & Fats/TC
4. Fasten Your Seatbelt - Pendulum & Freestylers
5. Through The Loop
6. Sounds Of Life - Pendulum & Jasmin Lee
7. Girl In The Fire
8. Tarantula - Pendulum & Fresh/Spyda/Tenor Fly
9. Out Here
10. Hold Your Colour
11. Terminal
12. Streamline
13. Blood Sugar
14. Axle Grinder
I would like to draw your attention to tracks 3, 4, 6 and 8. You'll notice that they have credited additional contributors for those songs. No biggie, right? Wrong.
I now have FIVE separate entries for "Hold Your Colour [2007]" in my music library.
This will also mean that, should I sync this album to my ipod, I will have five separate entries in my coverflow for exactly the same album.
HOW, HOW can that POSSIBLY make sense? The only way I can think of fixing this problem is to edit the ID3 tags to make sure each Artist entries says only "Pendulum". Which is stupid.
Oh, and while I'm at it, I'll need to sort the album art as well, since iTunes did not see fit to do this for me. Windows Media Player managed this just fine, by the way.
* which rocks, by the way, even if the Cool Kids are all listening to Sub Focus** and Chase 'n' Status*** now.
** who also rock, by the way, even if they are totally derivative
*** they don't rock quite so much. But they're alright.
So, yesterday, someone asked me what portable media players were Windows Media compatible, because they'd ripped all their CDs using Windows Media Player and it wouldn't let her put the music on her ipod. So, after a short amount of research I discovered the iTunes for Windows can convert from WMA to AAC with minimal fuss, so no need to buy a new player. She asked how, and I had no idea so I thought I'd grab a CD and test the theory.
The CD I grabbed was this one*. Lets see the track listing:
1. Prelude
2. Slam
3. Plastic World - Pendulum & Fats/TC
4. Fasten Your Seatbelt - Pendulum & Freestylers
5. Through The Loop
6. Sounds Of Life - Pendulum & Jasmin Lee
7. Girl In The Fire
8. Tarantula - Pendulum & Fresh/Spyda/Tenor Fly
9. Out Here
10. Hold Your Colour
11. Terminal
12. Streamline
13. Blood Sugar
14. Axle Grinder
I would like to draw your attention to tracks 3, 4, 6 and 8. You'll notice that they have credited additional contributors for those songs. No biggie, right? Wrong.
I now have FIVE separate entries for "Hold Your Colour [2007]" in my music library.
This will also mean that, should I sync this album to my ipod, I will have five separate entries in my coverflow for exactly the same album.
HOW, HOW can that POSSIBLY make sense? The only way I can think of fixing this problem is to edit the ID3 tags to make sure each Artist entries says only "Pendulum". Which is stupid.
Oh, and while I'm at it, I'll need to sort the album art as well, since iTunes did not see fit to do this for me. Windows Media Player managed this just fine, by the way.
* which rocks, by the way, even if the Cool Kids are all listening to Sub Focus** and Chase 'n' Status*** now.
** who also rock, by the way, even if they are totally derivative
*** they don't rock quite so much. But they're alright.