New Apple Lust Objects

yeah like when i scroll artists i see two songs by Big Head but when i sort by "trill ent survival of the fittest" it falls into line and i go about my day. i don't get bothered by the two Big Head songs. that sounds crazy trivial to me.

i have a bunch of odd trax that i got off blogs or whatever; i enter 'download' as the album tag for those, so if i was looking for one of those it makes sense to browse by artist to find those even if it is just one track. works for me, anyway.

i know what whiney is talking about - i sort my itunes library by ALBUM ARTIST for this reason.

for those odd trax i put in "techno" or "psych" or "edits" for the album artist. i find that it's a really useful way of sorting. the compilations don't have an album artist, so they end up at the back, grouped by album title.

i'm not sure if the iphone and ipod can sort by album artist, though ...

I'm 100% with Whiney on this. To mitigate it I put 'Various' as the artist and append the actual artist's name to the track name in parentheses.

I am glad I have never had a commute that was ever long enough for me to consider putting this much effort into doing the whatever you guys are talking about doing

by which I mean I am glad I have never had a four hour commute

I sort my iTunes library by "Date Added"

To mitigate it I put 'Various' as the artist and append the actual artist's name to the track name in parentheses.

This causes problems with scrobbling in last.fm though.

I have never used last.fm or had a scrobble

haha HI DERE said GROUPEED

you want the browse by artist to be the list of "album artists" rather than the 'artists'. ok.

yeah, view all and sort by "album artists". for bonus points in the "album view". is nice.

if yr on a mac, this can help in general

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/

though the only thing i can find does the REVERSE of what you want (copy artist info to album artist), and for the life of me i can't imagine why you'd want that.

What does Album Artist do, exactly? I mean I know what it does in a relational database sense, but not in a music-sorting sense.

artists is used for that track's artist, but album artist is used for the artist of the album as a whole that this track comes from. so artists contains all the "X featuring Y" stuff and album artist just has "X". sort of thing

Ohhhhh. Right. Thanks. Awesome.

i agree with whiney about this too. which is why i do something everyone will laugh at me for, which is make playlists for individual albums (i also like ot be able to see all my albums at once, with the artists' name--plus having individual DLed tracks adds a lot of crap to the "albums" listing).

I edit EVERY SINGLE ARTIST, ALBUM AND TRACK because I CANNOT STAND stupid spelling mistakes or offensive use of English and I DO NOT WANT IT ANYWHERE NEAR MY IPOD.

okay ipod anal retentives' support thread, maybe

that compilation thing *is* rubbish, fuck a steve jobs

i got into using "album artist" because of listening to lots of DJ mixes. you can also use "album artist" for the DJs name and then use the "artist" field for the individual artist.

i can also use it for grouping remixes, so that all of my jacques lu cont remixes show up under album artist "jacques lu cont", and i can still put down madonna in the artist field for "hung up" and coldplay in the artist field for "talk" and not feel bad about it.

and yeah this is quickly moving into itunes OCD thread

Nice functionality but hah, like I'm going to relabel 15107 tracks.

that's like saying "no way i'm going to alphabetize 3000 records". what do you think they're for, listening to? collections are for sorting!

ID3 tags often seem like a technology waiting for a user interface.

surprised itunes doesn't have some sort of "tag cloud" feature yet ...

they could integrate it with the visualizer, so the tag cloud shimmies in time to the music

compilation thing is terrific - what's crap are the submissions to CDDB that mark "best ofs" as compilations. really compilations is "various artists"

Since this is now a giant whinge thread I HATE HATE HATE people putting the 'Alternative' genre tag on any music that isn't top 40. XTC isn't alternative ffs.

(and alternative is a pointless genre anyway)

Will our kids dig through our old mp3 collections, discovering oddball favorites? I kind of doubt it.

They will lol at yr archived weekly Last.fm charts instead.

What is XTC?

They're a jangly guitar band beloved by Geir Hongro.

Yes, but is "Jangly Guitar Band" an acceptable genre for filesharing?

Meanwhile in the New Apple Lust Objects thread

49.5 hours to go and two Aus providers haven't announced shit.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/08/spat_with_rogers_leaves_canadian_apple_stores_without_iphones.html

lol/cry

I'm not sold on this iteration. GPS is meaningless to me without turn by turn directions and 3G coverage looks shaky at best.

Depends where you live. Here 3G coverage is very good on most carriers.

xp god I hope that's true. NZ could be next.

haha, Vodafone Aus competes with Optus's goodish plans by releasing total arse gravy. You idiots.

Ok, SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK IS UP HERE? Belgium has the iphone only it costs 525 to 700 fucking euros! I mean WHAT THE FUCK is up with that shit? yes, yes, yes, because they can't do the "koppelverkoop" (exclusively with one phone company, they have to make it available for all users). But COME ON 700 euros? I'm VERY tempted to import one. Hmm, how do you go about doing that anywayzz? Fuck. Yeah, I want one but not for 525/700 euros. Fuck that shit.

mmm, tasty koppelverkoop

i thought the price cap was worldwide?

hahahahahhahahaha

God no. 700 euros. I still can't get over it.

thats pretty ridiculous. do you have choice of carrier?

everyone outside the us & uk is getting fucked backwards and forwards on this thing

No kopelverkoop means any carrier you like, I think.