On Feb 4, 1:17 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to have an open system (I'm not saying FLOSS, I'm saying open > to competition), not because I want to copy files by hand, but because > I'd like competition, which means better products.
Closed systems compete, too. All online video shops for buying / renting videos are closed systems without interoperability, yet they compete for the same customers. > iTunes is great in > selling me Apple's stuff, while it's rather poor (if not crappy in some > aspects) for what concerns the cataloging aspect (which I frankly would > care more). There's no normalization of authors etc.; and for a big > bunch of songs that I imported from my old CDs there are some blatant > errors in metadata, such as seeing "1. Andante" in the title of the > piece (rather than e.g. "1st Brandenburgische Konzerte") or whatever. iTunes seems to use Gracenote (CDDB gone corporate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote) for CD detection, like pretty much everyone else. So I'm not sure other services can detect these CDs better. > Back in 1995 I had better cataloging capabilities of my music (of > course, data entry was manual, but no other choice at the time) and > frankly I'd have expected much better stuff in 2010!! Can't you edit the song information by hand in iTunes, too? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
