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    Genre categorizations at Gracenote

    I´m in the process of ripping all my CD´s to mp3. I use Winamp and it takes the tag info from Gracenote. Nice and smooth, but who the **** makes the decisions which genre a certain album is placed in? For example, both Whitesnakes "Live in the heart of the city" and Def Leppards "Hysteria" was apparently "Pop/Hair Metal" I mean wtf? And Tangerine Dream is apparently "Classic Rock". Have these people ever heard TD? Uriah Heep is "Progressive Rock", etc. etc...

    I´m to lazy to manually change all the genres to the real ones, but still... It bugs me
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    I agree. Capercaillie get listed as all sorts of crap. Gaelic folk-rock != New Age Pop.
    "Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt Whitman

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    • #3
      I have a sneaking suspicion that there´s a bunch of chimps doing the categorizations
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      • #4
        Damnit, why aren't they off somewhere rewriting Shakespeare?
        "Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt Whitman

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        • #5
          [Asher]

          Use WMP to ripp them to WMF files, far better quality.
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          Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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          • #6
            Use WMP to rip them to WMA files, far better quality.
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            • #7
              Re: Genre categorizations at Gracenote

              Uh, Def Leppard is Pop/Hair Metal. HTH. HAND.
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              • #8
                I also use WMP. The categorisation is not very good either. But I don't really care: if it gets the artist, the album and the songs right, I'm happy. Is it me or is WMP fast? With my old computer, it took ages to rip a song. Now it's really, really fast, and I'm ripping them at "optimal quality". Maybe it's just the new computer.
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                • #9
                  Re: Re: Genre categorizations at Gracenote

                  Originally posted by St Leo
                  Uh, Def Leppard is Pop/Hair Metal. HTH. HAND.
                  I wouldn´t place DL in the same cathegory as say Poison, White Lion and other hair bands. Not the early albums in any case.
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