WITFITS: Adventures In Album Art

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Adventures In Album Art

by Kato @ 4:25 PM

I continue my adventures in assuring that I don't own a damned MP3 that doesn't have album art.

Sometimes iTunes has a very weird idea of what the right album art is. For instance, check out the picture accompanying this post. Guess what CD it thought it was appropriate for? Just guess. You'll never get it...

The Lord of the Rings Soundtrack.

Maybe there's a Bollywood version of Tolkien's epic that I am not familiar with.

5 comments

MC Etcher said...

1/08/2008 6:36 AM

There's no maybe about it, Sir.

Paulius said...

1/09/2008 5:39 AM

I've seen it...

At the battle of Helm's Deep, rather that saving the day by charging the Orcs with the sun at their backs, Gandalf and the Ro'hirim all do a synchronized dance down the hill while Aragorn and Legolas sing in immposibly high-pitched, screechy voices.

Instead of his robes, Gandalf is weaing blue jeans and a bright red leather jacket.

Oh, and there's only 1 Orc, but they film him running by the camera a bunch of times so he looks like a lot.

Kato (post author) said...

1/09/2008 1:18 PM

Ha!

WildWeazel said...

1/09/2008 1:34 PM

I've seen the phenomenon too. Both WMP and WinAmp are convinced that a particular CD is Lifehouse, which it is most definitely not.

Kato (post author) said...

1/09/2008 1:46 PM

I played around with WMP's tool to automatically find your album information (or correct what you have) and although it worked in some cases, in others it completely ruined my mp3 tag information because it thought my perfectly normal CD was some weird import version spanning multiple CDs or with songs in a different order (or absent altogether). I'm still picking up the pieces from that disaster.