Thanks for the link.  As I was checking it out, it dawned on me that I 
was importing an accompiament CD, which may have had something to do 
with the mix-up.  I'm just glad to know I'm not crazy.  I just couldn't 
understand how Sandi Patty can be confused with Shaquille O'Neal!

Thanks for your insight.

Luann

Lee Larson wrote:

> 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
>
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