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This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from November 2005 and lives here forevermore.

First against the wall: ID3 tags

In continuance of my new found role as a grumpy person I want to rail against people who put MP3s online for download (and I’m talking legal MP3s here) and who don’t put proper ID3 tags in the files. It’s very annoying when I add a few dozen new MP3s to iTunes and I see songs with a title and no artist or, worse than that, no artist and the title as “Track 02” or some such.

If you’re capable of creating your own music, encoding it to MP3 and making it available for download on the internet then surely adding some ID3 tags shouldn’t be that difficult. Much more important that just keeping me happy is the fact that should I like one of your tunes it would be nice if I knew who you are. If I don’t then what was the point of the whole exercise for both you and me?

To clarify this point I should say that most people do this right, such as Skidoo!, and to them I am grateful. It’s just the minority of fools who really get on my nerves and waste my time.