You know what's really bugging me right now? The sloppy ID tags on songs on my XM Satellite Radio's digital display. The inconsistancies (and sometimes downright errors) drive me absolutely nuts.
I mean, when the '90s on 9 (music from the '90s on channel 9 -- clever, eh?) plays "U Can't Touch This", the display reads this:
MC Hammer/Vanilla Ice
You Can't Touch This
Right...umm, You bet.
And when Top Tracks, XM46, plays Ozzy, every song is different. "Crazy Train" is credited to Ozzy Osbourne, while "Bark At The Moon" is credited to simply "Ozzy". Worse yet, "Paranoid" is credited to "Ozzy", when its actually Black Sabbath (with Ozzy singing vocals, of course).
Come on, guys.
This morning, while I was listening to the '80s on 8, the display actually said this:
Your in the 80s again!
With Bruce Kelly on XM8
I damn near crashed The Colorado. They broke my pet peeve by using the wrong "your/you're". Arrgh.
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Granted, I am extremely anal retentive with my own personal music collection. Every single song in my 6400-song library is properly catalogued, with proper artist credit and original album listed, and album art attached. I actually spend time researching this stuff to get it right, because it drives me batty when a song comes up on my iPod with an incomplete ID. Honest.
Weird, I know. Most people, normal people, don't care. About a year ago, by good buddy Bennett sync'd his iPod up to my computer and dumped its contents onto my hard drive. It took me like 4 days working 6-7 hours to clean up his ID tags to the point where I would allow them into my iTunes library. I had to quarantine them on my lappy G3 until I could get them organized enough to move over to my massive library on the G4 Tower.
Messy ID tags make me want to throw up in my mouth.
Its quite an ironic anomoly, actually, because almost nothing else in my life is so detailed, neat or organized. I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-dunarees kind of dude. But for some reason I turn into Psycho McGee when it comes to digital music. Explain that one, smart peoples. I know you're out there.
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