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 > > > | 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> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 25 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>
