Aphex Twin finds a solution to tagging your MP3 'trackqs' (see what I did there?)
It’s comforting to know I’m not the only ID3 obsessive around (whether to cap prepositions is an ongoing internal struggle, ‘Gang of Four’ or ‘Gang Of Four’?) Paul Lamere, Sun Labs researcher and audiophile, has conducted a litmus test of which 2.0 sites have an authoritative grasp on music metadata using the posterboy of all that is homely and simple, Richard D. James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin.
The second track on his 1999 single ‘Windowlicker’, officially goes by the name
ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{i}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[[n−1]]
Understandably, most people just call it ‘Equation’.
Lamere’s test throws up some interesting results – rather than transcribing complicated track titles, a couple of sites just pretend the song doesn’t exist – and confirms we should all be using MusicBrainz to handle our mp3 tagging needs.
The community edited music metadatabase offers its own auto-tagging software to download for free, or you can point your existing tagger (if it’s any good) to synchronise with MusicBrainz servers.
(via Duke Listens!)
P.S. Here is the ‘Come to [To?] Daddy’ video. Just because.
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It’s comforting to know that I’ve had the inspiration to use MusicBrainz for years, without any study. Though it did screw up a few filename for me, because they had Romanian characters in them, which were replaced with random squigglies…. But for English language tracks it’s perfect.
P.S. Don’t caps the prepositions, of course 😛
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