What are you listening to right now ?

[ian_heys]

I frequently find that tags on music files I've bought don't match other files in my collection. I always review the tags, and generally edit them before adding the files to my server.

Robert

+1

EZ CD Converter usually gives me a choice of 6 -8 options and most of these have generally improved over the years but I still get some of these symptom:

Titles - not in title case/incorrect spelling (has improved on many databases)
Genres - according to whom?
Year - album recorded or published?
Album Artist - sometimes missing album cover artists
Track Artist - many times insufficient when different to Album Artist
Album Art variable quality (I find Gracenote usually has reasonable quality cover images)
Too much extraneous stuff
etc etc

You think you're grumpy

[Grumpy Bob]

+1

EZ CD Converter usually gives me a choice of 6 -8 options and most of these have generally improved over the years but I still get some of these symptom:

Titles - not in title case/incorrect spelling (has improved on many databases)
Genres - according to whom?
Year - album recorded or published?
Album Artist - sometimes missing album cover artists
Track Artist - many times insufficient when different to Album Artist
Album Art variable quality (I find Gracenote usually has reasonable quality cover images)
Too much extraneous stuff
etc etc

You think you're grumpy

My biggest bugbear is variable capitalisation and also and/&. Oh and bands that change their name slightly with different albums. It's a bit of irritation when Spotify has an artist capitalised differently that my collection...

My general grumpiness is declining with advancing years!

Robert

[Fahzz]

Yes, I subscribe to that. But I was curious about the playlist you mentioned. When you open the playlist in your browser, the ID is the numbers at the end of the URL in the address bar.

This is an example of a playlist I like:
https://play.qobuz.com/playlist/3728562

(you can use that number in the search box in LMS to play it there)

Try this: https://play.qobuz.com/playlist/3900674

Let me know if it works, and if it does, enjoy it. I didn't know I could share a playlist. I learned something today. Thanks.

[Fahzz]

Follow up:

Somehow a Michael Jackson album was added to that list . Oops!

[jeroen2]

Let me know if it works, and if it does, enjoy it. I didn't know I could share a playlist. I learned something today. Thanks.

Yes it does, thanks! A few albums on there I would already listened to sometimes, but lots of interesting new stuff.

[d6jg]

My biggest bugbear is variable capitalisation and also and/&. Oh and bands that change their name slightly with different albums. It's a bit of irritation when Spotify has an artist capitalised differently that my collection...

My general grumpiness is declining with advancing years!

Robert

I’ve recently seen artists on Qobuz that appear to be named exactly as I have them in my local library appear as a separate entry in LMS 8 with online library integration. I haven’t interrogated the database yet but I think it must be some white space.
I think my overriding bug bear is and/&.
I’ve got physical media where the artist uses & on everything but Allmusic only recognises and.

[sota748]

This must be a new version

[Grumpy Bob]

I've been playing the recently released expanded edition of Author! Author! by the Edinburgh post-punk band Scars. Originally released in 1981, this is one of those LPs I never bought at the time owing to limited financial resource and I'd hankered after a copy for many years. A few years ago I got a vinyl copy via mail order that was so pristine it must have sat for decades on a record shop shelf! There was a CD version available for a short time, but I never managed to get hold of a copy.

This collection brings together a CD of demos and a CD of live recordings with the remastered Author! Author! which itself has bonus tracks. It's not on Spotify, not sure of other streaming services.



Robert

[RonM]

This must be a new version

Well, he DID play guitar on the track.

R.

[w3wilkes]

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope. This album seems to get a little better on each listen, I think I'll have to get more of her!