Re: I supply high-quality data via User Feedback; crap replaces it
- From: "Mike Williams" <mikew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:41:31 +1000
I raised this as an explicit bug some time ago in the Vista beta, but sadly still no progress in this area.
"dswtan" <dswtan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0E42A878-A54F-4001-91C5-7F9F09AFFC55@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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