RE: DIYHA Digital Jukebox - Issues

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

I have some comments:

1) Naming
In a great many cases, the naming info provided by the record companies is
*wrong* from album to album. Perfect example: Faith Hill's first album
"Faith Hill" has a song titled "This Kiss", which I
rather like. I have
several copies from various compilations and the album itself. The song is
incorrectly named as "The Kiss" on her own album, or, at least,
the one
published in the UK. it's fine in the states.

Correcting naming errors is a *mind numbing* exercise. I have manually
corrected over THREE THOUSAND filenames and tags in the main archive. The
thought of doing all of them or manually inputting that data in some way
makes my head spin.

I mean, be honest Keith, how long in hours has it taken you to input what
you had? and thats for a thousand and a half plus tracks? The archive I
have
here is sitting at about 58,000 tracks. To manually enter *one word* into a
database for the current archive would take hundreds of man-days.

2) Duplicate removal.

How do you decide if two tracks are "the same" ? as an example:

I have four copies of "Queen - Somebody to Love", all at the same
bitrate
etc and of similar sizes.
*BUT* One is the original, from "a day at the races", One is from
Greatest
Hits and is digitally remastered, and sounds *much* better than the
original
which was a fairly bad CD transfer. The Third one is a live version, and
the
fourth is an absolutely fantastic version with George Michael singing as a
tribute to Freddie Mercury!

The only way to figure that out is to listen to them all, and again, that
doesn't scale too well!

Not to mention, can the database actually handle multiple versions of the
one song?

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:lists.diyha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 May 2002 00:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DIYHA Digital Jukebox