*** UPDATE: See my next post for two proposed solutions
Posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm in Apple, Usability.
Jay Says:
you do understand that data is not from apple but from the legendarily inaccurate gracenote right? CD names are calculated by the exact number of tracks and track lengths – my favorite are classic CDs – often duplicate names. Also, the data isn’t vetted – so what would you rather, show the wrong one or give you a choice? Now if you want to gripe because you can’t see which one has the wrong spelling of Eleanor Rigby on it, that I can almost see…
Anyway, if you have an alternative more accurate service, file a bug with Apple, maybe they’ll use it…
A more accurate service won’t be full solution. Since the CD identification is essentially a checksum*, there will be collisions. Even if you don’t want to select between different entries for the Beatles album, you probably want to choose between it and David Hasselhoff’s Greatest Hits.
* A bad checksum, probably. If it was any good, I would not have seen the collisions.
you do understand that data is not from apple but from the legendarily inaccurate gracenote right? CD names are calculated by the exact number of tracks and track lengths – my favorite are classic CDs – often duplicate names. Also, the data isn’t vetted – so what would you rather, show the wrong one or give you a choice? Now if you want to gripe because you can’t see which one has the wrong spelling of Eleanor Rigby on it, that I can almost see…
Anyway, if you have an alternative more accurate service, file a bug with Apple, maybe they’ll use it…
A more accurate service won’t be full solution. Since the CD identification is essentially a checksum*, there will be collisions. Even if you don’t want to select between different entries for the Beatles album, you probably want to choose between it and David Hasselhoff’s Greatest Hits.
* A bad checksum, probably. If it was any good, I would not have seen the collisions.