> (1) Users are fairly good at accurately transcribing information from the
> CD inlay, cover etc. to the database. They will fix typos, and merge
> dupes correctly most of the time.
>
> (2) Users (in general) have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE what "genre" of music they
> are listening to. It doesn't say on the box, so they'll guess or choose
> the default setting. The best you might hope for is a divison by which
> "section" in a CD store you'd find the CD in, which is a pretty worthless
> piece of information anyway.
>
> (3) Users don't want to spend a lot of time entering data. Some obsessives
> will type the entire lyrics for a track, (I think the copyright issues
> there are too hot for CDindex to touch) but most people won't.
That's a very good summary of the issues at hand. I'm in complete
agreement here.
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