[X4U] iTunes and Apple service

[Craig Finseth]

On 22 Jun 2012, at 7:25a, Lawrance A. Schneider wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was intrigued by this written by Craig Finseth:
> 
>> First, the metadata in the online service that Apple used (and, as far as I know, all other services) is very inconsistent.
>> 
>> Normally, I use it as a starting place and replace most of it with my own entries.  But I have a good sized library  (25,000+ songs) and want to be able to find things.
> 
> I have a large iTunes library with considerable "Classical" music - pre Baroque, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, African (subdivided when possible), American Indian, Indian...  You get the idea.  Further, I use things like: Chopin, Frédéric (1810 - 1849).
> 
> Apple uses "Classical" and "World" as their categories and seems to have a lot of trouble  spelling composers names.  I'd like to use "New iTunes Match".  However, I don't want to need to correct all of my music's names and categories if Apple screws up all of my previous efforts.
> 
> Any ideas?

Well, even if you change the metadata, Apple knows what they sold you, so it can still be matched.

I don't have any good solution for the crummy metadata problem in general.

Craig