{"id":2088,"date":"2004-01-03T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/madacy-metadata\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:51:53","slug":"madacy-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/03\/madacy-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"Madacy != metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12528,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.madacyvideo.com\\\/music\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve babbled before about my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/metadata_is_a_g.html\" title=\"Metadata is a good thing\">anal-retentive obsession with metadata<\/a> when it comes to my music collection. Today, I remembered one of my major frustrations: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madacyvideo.com\/music\/index.html\" title=\"Madacy Entertainment\">Madacy Music Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly working my way through re-encoding my music collection. I&#8217;d had it all ripped to my old computer as .mp3s, but now that I have my G5 with the extra storage space and processing speed, I decided to re-encode everything as .m4a. Less space, better quality, and all that. While I <em>could<\/em> have just pulled all the .mp3 files over and done a mass convert to .m4a, I wanted to get the best quality possible, which necessitates encoding from the original CDs. No problem &#8212; it&#8217;s a big project (with upwards of 1200 CDs to go through), but worth it in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m going through, I&#8217;m ensuring that each imported CD has all the correct metadata for each track &#8212; title, artist, composer, and year of release &#8212; which most of the time isn&#8217;t a problem, as all this is generally listed in the CD booklet that comes with each album. However, over the years I&#8217;ve occasionally ended up with albums from Madacy, who seem to specialize in ultra-low cost compliations. I&#8217;m not sure <em>how<\/em> I end up with them, as they&#8217;re generally not something I&#8217;d go for (cheap in more than just price), but I&#8217;ve got a few.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, apparently one of the many cost-cutting measures that Madacy employs is simply giving as little information as possible about the songs included on their compilations. I just ripped a 3-disc set of Irish folk music where the only information given for any of the 44 tracks was the title &#8212; no performing artist, no composer, nada. Grrrrrr.<\/p>\n<p>I know this kind of stuff (especially to this extreme) matters not a whit to most people, but dammit, it matters to <em>me<\/em>, and having to deal with a company this shoddy about their releases is just frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve babbled before about my anal-retentive obsession with metadata when it comes to my music collection. Today, I remembered one of my major frustrations: the Madacy Music Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2046],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}