Ever since my old NCSSM roommate Chethan and I found the wonders of MP3s, I’ve been kind of sporadic on the tagging of my songs. The pain in the ass part was searching for each of the albums, then punching in the track information. I’m a lazy bastard, and I like making the computer work.
Technology to the rescue. Musicbrainz, which I found today, uses some technology that Napster bought back in the day to generate an acoustic fingerprint for the song. Napster hoped to track the songs being shipped around on its network. They ran out of money and ways to fight off the RIAA before they could fully implement this. Musicbrainz then uses that identifier to try and search against its known albums. Its surprisingly accurate, even for some of the rarer electronic music I listen to.
Give it a try, its sweet.
Going to hit Best Buy tomorrow and see if they have any 4g iPods out of the box and on sale. Otherwise, I’ll probably get the HP iPod from buy.com.
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