I recently decided to rip a whole pile of compilation albums mainly for use in my car (about 280) using a ripping program that has access to the database and the errors are horrendous! Some popular tracks appear more than once on different albums and, because of the inconsistency of presentation, the program thinks they are different and lists them accordingly, as separate tracks, even though they are identical. Yes, it does save an awful lot of typing but I have still had to go through the whole lot, doing corrections and deleting the duplicates. Errors are: blatant spelling mistakes, e.g. Gerry (Jerry) and (&) the Pacemakers (Peacemakers - and worse!), upper case, lower case, artist and title reversals, separated by a dash or slash, "creative spelling". i.e. words ending in "ing" spelt "in`" (Very American, that!), "&" or "and", odd gaps, first letters not capitalised, first name/last name reversals, odd apostrophes thrown in, or not where they should be - the list just goes on and on! It`s taken me months of scrutiny and, even now, sometimes an error just hits me between the eyes where I haven`t noticed it before. Probably works OK for single-artist albums, but compilations are not the strong point!
David
I recently decided to rip a whole pile of compilation albums mainly for use in my car (about 280) using a ripping program that has access to the database and the errors are horrendous! Some popular tracks appear more than once on different albums and, because of the inconsistency of presentation, the program thinks they are different and lists them accordingly, as separate tracks, even though they are identical. Yes, it does save an awful lot of typing but I have still had to go through the whole lot, doing corrections and deleting the duplicates. Errors are: blatant spelling mistakes, e.g. Gerry (Jerry) and (&) the Pacemakers (Peacemakers - and worse!), upper case, lower case, artist and title reversals, separated by a dash or slash, "creative spelling". i.e. words ending in "ing" spelt "in`" (Very American, that!), "&" or "and", odd gaps, first letters not capitalised, first name/last name reversals, odd apostrophes thrown in, or not where they should be - the list just goes on and on! It`s taken me months of scrutiny and, even now, sometimes an error just hits me between the eyes where I haven`t noticed it before. Probably works OK for single-artist albums, but compilations are not the strong point!