[Sigia-l] metadata redux

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"Eric Scheid" wrote:

> Not that all vendor-supplied metadata should be dismissed ... a great deal,
> if not virtually all, of the descriptive meta data to be found at iTunes is
> vendor supplied. Why isn't that gamed? A vendor, with some crap tunes in an
> obscure genre (folk polkas?) could state they are hip-hop tunes or some
> other more popular genre.
> 
> Yet they don't.
> 
> Why?

Because there's no non-contrived reason for them to commit label suicide by
mislabeling their songs, in the context of iTunes metadata? Does that
necessarily mean that you can trust record labels with metadata in other
contexts? Heck, labels have been known to misrepresent songs on P2P networks
with bogus, white-noise files. :-)

Ziya
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