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While it may seem a 'bad habit' to those who use a Zune, iPod, or other dedicated music player to listen to their music, I find that the labour of adding metadata to my music files (mostly MP3s) would be too much work, even with nifty software helping out. As Jason suggested, taking hours or days seems like a lot of work. I have other priorities, like raising a family and getting work done. So when I rip a CD into MP3 files, I just use AudioGrabber. Then I take about 35 seconds to open the folder in VLC, save as an M3U playlist, open that in Notepad and use a Replace All (Ctrl + H) to remove the full paths from each track, making a filename-only playlist with no conditions on storage location. In that way I am able to launch the M3U playlist file from any location I like, on any computer, and the default music software has no problem playing all the tracks. It's dead easy, and for my uses with VLC on the PC or CORE on the WM phone, works just peachy.
Don't have any use for album art on the phone as I tend to shut off the screen while listening, same on the PC as music plays in the background while I do other things. Never have I allowed media players to grab online album art or other data, as this strikes me as both invasive a vulnerability in media players, not a feature. If I'm listening to music, whether it's a client's latest jazz recording or some ancient classical album I grabbed in realtime from vinyl I've had since childhood, it's to hear the music, not any metadata. So different strokes I guess, and I can see how for some users metadata may be important... but not critical for all.
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Gerard Ivan Samija
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Music Metadata: It's Here to Stay
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