Re: I supply high-quality data via User Feedback; crap replaces it
- From: dswtan <dswtan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:45:02 -0700
Resurrecting this thread, I see we still have this sort of thing going on in
WMP-B2.
A slightly different spin on the scenario is that I've just ripped a
non-mainstream CD that has User Feedback data provided, but, as too often,
it's therefore a mismash of capitalization and contains typos and errors. Ok,
so I correct those in my Library. Now I'd like to submit my much cleaner
verison as User Feedback so the database guys can improve the data for
everyone -- huh? There's no way to do this? Seems I would have to re-make all
my edits after another Find Album Info and then submit from there! No way! So
I won't bother, and the database will remain unimproved.
Seems like a missed opportunity to me -- there should be a way to submit
User Feedback album info from one's Library (or a way to pre-populate the
Find Album Info editing pane with one's Library content, to override the
existing database content -- at least for User Feedback items).
"Mike Williams" wrote:
IndexTurret wrote:.
"Mike Williams" wrote:
This state of affairs has been around for years. I've logged beta bugs
through multiple versions of WMP and blogged heavily on these problems
here http://msmvps.com/thinice/.
Thanks Mike. There's a lot to know, apparently, about the subject of
metadata tagging---your depth of knowledge exceeds mine, so some of your blog
is over my head, but it was very interesting, and my "take-away" from this
discussion is that it will probably take a few years before the state of the
art evolves concerning how to sift the wheat from the chaff in user-supplied
metadata. Thanks again.
Well they appear to have done a lot of duymb things with this database
that elementary controls would have prevented - like allowing sparse or
nonlinguistic rubbish to overwrite complete existing data, and also of
overwriting sets of English data with Japanese or Korean data from other
databases. Then there's the issue of simply losing albums that used to
be present in the database, but which now cannot be found in any form or
quality.
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