Nonreality;324842 Wrote: > OK let me get this straight. People and lastfm tell you how to do your > tags??? I've never had anything like that happen and if it did I'd tell > them to b*** m*. I'll tag the beatles as the penguins if I want to. > The day a service starts bugging me to fix my tags is the day that > program goes away. Now a suggestion would be ok mind you, but > bugging,no way.
Well the service doesn't really bug you as much as they let you know there is most likely something wrong with the tag. "And could you please check it to make sure it is correct". This is just a little banner that pops up above your now playing when it sees a tag that doesn't look exactly right. Then if it is for a group that is in your top 20 most played, the Group photo is replaced with a special Last.FM Logo message that asks you to verify your tags. I do kind of follow the idea or logic behind it as the service is tacking "My Music" to which they are going to chart for me then compare to everybody else to be able to build large charts of groups and to be able to then group me with other users that have similar listening habits and likes. Hard to do that if all my tags are custom labeled in shorthand like LED for "Led Zeppelin" or Cops for "The Police". I could as you say tell them to bugger off, but wasn't it my choice to "Join" Last.FM and my choice to scrobber my Squeezeboxes? They made the rules which I accepted before signing up and they are not charging be anything to provide the service they provide. All they ask is that I check my tags so they are accurate. Its the members that can get a little silly/crazy sometimes. And I do see their point, to a point. And I really see Last.FM's point since I started a group on Last.FM. One of the Jazz groups I enjoy is "Flim & the BB's". I have seen them tagged in about 15 different ways from the way I just typed it to "Flim And The Bee Bees" (which is way wrong)! I guess the real problem is that the only standard in tagging is within each type of tagging standard (they couldn't even make up their minds about that so we have 10 different systems) as to Field only because one can fill that field with anything. There should be standards defined for the publishing companies, artists, and mastering companies to follow, that trickle all the way down to the end user tagging a ripped file. Look at shopping for CDs and Vinyl, artists are listed by last name and groups are listed by first word in the group. But what if the group is the name of a person not in the group as in a person of history or a fictional one from a movie?!? I remove the "The" from in front of any group that has "The" as the first word of the group (if I don't forget before hitting rip) and for any group that is Somebody "and the" Whatevers, I always make the "and the" lowercase whether the group or tag lookup does or not. Again I think we need some standards, but that's just me. Maybe its the Engineer in me that needs things to have at least some sort of order, who knows. What I do know is that I have shifted my paradigm from thinking of music as CDs and albums to thinking of them as songs by artists. SqueezeCenter is now my music manager so to make that easy, I need to tag properly so I am not forced to also have music managing software when SC can really do it all as long as I take the time to tag properly to get the result I want from SC. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Bedroom: SB3, NAD C370, Thiel 2.3 Home Office: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, VSM-1 Sigs Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50492
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