5 thoughts on “Attention Composers!!”

  1. Ok, so it’s petty. But it’s really frustrating. And it’s, like, everybody!

    I’ve got stuff from podcasts with no metadata. From group podcasts, that’s just stupid because it’s really difficult to even figure out whose piece it is.

    I just grabbed a couple of pieces from Kyle Gann. No data.

    A whole album posted to the internet (The Violin Futura Project) is really nice, but I have to do all the metadata codes myself by cutting and pasting shit from the website.

    And then one of my fellow students.

    Old, young, men, women. The only thing they had in common was location. Just because you’re not from California doesn’t necessarily doom you to a pathetic life of stupidity and tech illiteracy! It’s all these foreigners from places like England and New York City that are too stupid to post music in a reasonable manner.

    And if you don’t tag it, and people listen to it with no tags, none of the weird music spy lists know about it. You could be a huge underground sensation and google won’t know. Last.fm won’t know. No automated service will know. And frankly, you’re not going to be a huge hit without buzz. Automated music spy services are buzz. They actually seem to work – one of your friends thinks you have good taste in music and so looks at your history and finds out about a new band. I had this sort of interaction recently.

    I feel vaguely guilty for calling people stupid. But I don’t have time to be fixing the metadata for every single track. I have only so much time to pay close attention to music and if I’m spending it fixing stupid shit, I don’t have it for actually listening.

    grr.

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