Prodigy vs. The Prodigy

ok, I like The Prodigy as much as the next guy (ok, maybe less) but apparently iTunes (7.1.1) really wanted me to find them in my list. Maybe it’s because I had an album in there without the article in front of their name, or maybe it’s some other issue (I’ve got 528 artists in 37 genres). In any case, it’s doing it again today. I will rename one of them…

After doing that, my doubled Prodigies merged and became one, without repetitions. The other alternative would have been to delete them both, but I’m something of a digital packrat when it comes to music, hanging onto things long after I’ve stopped listening to them.

Speaking of new music, it’s been a great couple of weeks for new releases. Check back soon for some reviews.

boolean is listening to: Atlantic from the album “Under The Iron Sea Ltd Edition” by Keane

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Published:: 03.26.07 / 10am

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I am Boolean (aka Rob Campbell). I recently moved back to Moncton, NB, Canada and work for an open source software company as a hacker. In my spare time, I play Xbox, read, watch video and when inspired, dabble with music or shoot pictures. Lately, I’ve been trying to lower my golf handicap.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 09:57:18

Rob Hutten 03.26.07 / 1pm

iTunes does weird shit like that by times. I’m pretty tolerant; the thing’s gotta manage 3700+ artists in 106 genres in my case, and I’m really pushing the ap past what it’s meant to do (what, it’s not a full 78rpm cataloguing & discography system?), so there’s bound to be the occasional glitch.

It really only works when you’re picky about your tagging. Fortunately, I’m OCD. Nothing enters my library without proper artist, title & genre tags, and I’m constantly checking for duplicates. Huuuuuuge nerd.

boolean 03.26.07 / 2pm

Yeah, you gotta be diligent with this stuff, no two ways about it. I apply a healthy dose of OCD to my library too yet still managed to screw up a misnamed band in this case. There are fringe cases, usually when I get something from someone else or off of the internet (Note to RIAA: I’m not stealing! There are valid examples of legally downloadable music for free on the internet, Google “Brad Sucks” if you don’t believe me) that doesn’t mesh with my schema. Then I have to go in and manually update my most recently added music. It’s a huge pain, but the payoffs are humongous.

3700 artists is monstrous. How big’s your collection these days? You mentioned the other day in IM that your collection’s pushing double your 20GB iPod but you must have a ton of one-offs in your library to have that many artists.

Also, given the explosive growth of digital music in the past decade, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect people to have collections with these kinds of numbers in them. We’re going to be on the large size (or, even, “plus-sized” if you will) of the spectrum, but iTunes should still be able to handle it.

(a note to apple developers, I actually expect that this particular bug is in the list pane that’s displaying the artists, and not necessarily in iTunes. That is just what my gut is telling me and I have to listen to it)

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