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which_chickDear Amazon.com: Thank you for selling me un-DRM'd .mp3 files. This is a wonderful service for those of us in the world who are not i-Fans. Yay! Please see about increasing the depth of your catalog soonest, it'd be most helpful. Also, could you please use the same file naming convention that the Russian mafia uses?
See, the .mp3 file I just bought from you is called 09 - Yeah Yeah Yeah (LP Version). mmm-hmm. Now, I happen to know, right now, that this is from a quasi-hairband of the eighties called Kix that almost-but-not-quite made it big. Right now, I know that. Later, when I dive into the nearly bottomless pool of the unclassified and unfolderized music on my hard drive, I will not be able to tell where the fuck this song came from or who sings it by looking at the filename. (I'm working on the folderizing, really. I keep an orderly computer about as well as I keep house, though, so don't expect much on this front.)
However, the stuff I got from the Russian mafia, that stuff comes titled like this: New_Model_Army_-_Impurity_-_06_.Marrakesh Their format is Artist-Album-Track#-Title. I get a lot more information from the filename that the Russian mafia uses than I do from the one that Amazon.com uses. (Both, er, vendors have tags that work ok in my .mp3 player of choice. I do not *like* the Russian mafia, but they have a fairly deep catalog and a minimum-buy-in of twenty bucks. I needed a couple of tracks from them for the Cousin-Heather CD project and am currently working off the rest of the twenty bucks. I have no further plans to deal with them once I work off the rest of the twenty bucks.)
Since I'm paying about ninety cents or a buck a track for legit Amazon.com downloads and not supporting the Russian mafia's drug/weapons/prostitution operations in the process, it's be nice if I didn't have to rename every freaking track after downloading it. Maybe Amazon.com could have a thing where you could specify your downloaded-mp3-file-naming-convention preferences. Then they could throw the file to you pre-named in a fashion that appeals to you. That would totally rock. I've sent them an email, which they are, of course, free to ignore.
See, the .mp3 file I just bought from you is called 09 - Yeah Yeah Yeah (LP Version). mmm-hmm. Now, I happen to know, right now, that this is from a quasi-hairband of the eighties called Kix that almost-but-not-quite made it big. Right now, I know that. Later, when I dive into the nearly bottomless pool of the unclassified and unfolderized music on my hard drive, I will not be able to tell where the fuck this song came from or who sings it by looking at the filename. (I'm working on the folderizing, really. I keep an orderly computer about as well as I keep house, though, so don't expect much on this front.)
However, the stuff I got from the Russian mafia, that stuff comes titled like this: New_Model_Army_-_Impurity_-_06_.Marrakesh Their format is Artist-Album-Track#-Title. I get a lot more information from the filename that the Russian mafia uses than I do from the one that Amazon.com uses. (Both, er, vendors have tags that work ok in my .mp3 player of choice. I do not *like* the Russian mafia, but they have a fairly deep catalog and a minimum-buy-in of twenty bucks. I needed a couple of tracks from them for the Cousin-Heather CD project and am currently working off the rest of the twenty bucks. I have no further plans to deal with them once I work off the rest of the twenty bucks.)
Since I'm paying about ninety cents or a buck a track for legit Amazon.com downloads and not supporting the Russian mafia's drug/weapons/prostitution operations in the process, it's be nice if I didn't have to rename every freaking track after downloading it. Maybe Amazon.com could have a thing where you could specify your downloaded-mp3-file-naming-convention preferences. Then they could throw the file to you pre-named in a fashion that appeals to you. That would totally rock. I've sent them an email, which they are, of course, free to ignore.
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Date: 2008-03-03 03:09 am (UTC)