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It should come as no surprise that, as both an IA and a music snob, I keep my ID3 tags pretty much immaculate. Correct spellings, title case throughout, even proper diacritics, until they were ruined by the iTunes v7.7 update.
As part of my curatorial approach, I classify for optimal findability - which means, since I have an iPhone, that I arrange my artists the proper/anal way - by surname for solo artists, and by name for bands. The definite article is of course excluded and appended as a suffix. Hence:
- Mitchell, Joni
- Smiths, The
- Add N To (X)
But those last.fm upstarts think they know better than me. National, The “is an incorrect tag for The National. If this non-artist appears in your charts, do last.fm and yourself a favor. Fix your artist tags.” Also - the injustice - a big red image imploring me to adhere to their wrong-minded tagging policies.
Non-artist? The cheek! They’ll regret this, I tell you. Oh, and favor? They’re based in Shoreditch! Grr!
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Playing devil’s advocate, would you place Ben Folds’ solo material under F, but music by the band Ben Folds Five under B?
And would you adhere to the ‘title case throughout’ rule, even for a band such as easyworld, who spell their name with a lowercase ‘e’? If not, would the case dictate a different position in the alphabetical list, maybe uppercase before lowercase, putting easyworld after E-Z Rollers, The in your collection?