SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: [Sigia-l] Bottoms-up tagging
Re: [Sigia-l] Bottoms-up tagging
On Sep-13-2005, at 1:12 PM, Louise Hewitt wrote:
> My major gripe with iTunes - it thinks that African and
> Appalachian music are the same thing: folk. And I have 4 seperate
> 'HipHop' categories. I miss stuff I want because I'm trusting the
> tags.
in fairness, this is not a failing of iTunes but of Gracenote
(formerly CDDB) which seems to simply accept the most popular choice
for a category, rather than applying any editorial wisdom.
It's also a failing of the human condition, which tends to support
people having their own opinions :D
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