On Oct 13, 2005, at 9:23 PM, LuAnn Johnson worries about her sanity: > I imported into iTunes a song called "Masterpiece" by Sandi Patty. > When I looked for it later to use in iMovie, I couldn't find it, so > figured I must have just played it instead of imported it, so I > imported it again. As it was importing, the song title/artist read > "I'm Outstanding" by Shaquille O'Neal. It was then that I > discovered that I had actually imported Sandi Patty's "Masterpiece" > earlier, but hadn't realized it stored it as a different title/ > artist. Of course, I made the changes in iTunes - Shaquille O'Neal > just isn't my cup of tea. But does this make sense? Or am I > losing my mind?
iTunes gets its CD track information from the Gracenote service [1]. Gracenote gets much of its information from its users. (In iTunes, look at the menu item "Advanced->Submit CD Track Names.") If Gracenote was given bad information by a user, it will give out that bad information. I saw this happen a year or so ago when a disk in my 200 More Miles two CD set by the Cowboy Junkies was identified as something from Clint Black. I submitted corrected data, but I don't know whether it's what they serve up now. [1] www.gracenote.com/music | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
