when i was checking with an Record Company to see if they were going to re release an album i have only in cassette tape format, they told me they didn't have any paper records of that album ever being made by them, even though the number on the tape was an number they used it was not found in their paper trail. so i asked why they thought that would be.? keep in mind i was emailing the ceo of Public Affairs Department at the company. but they said they had to stop at a certain year when going back in their records department because of an warehouse issue.. Meaning either fire or water damage to their files had happened due to a leaking building or one that had burned down. they said this has happened to lots of record companys but few like to admit it. also before computers they had so many mass's of files that putting them in data format is still not finished, and that goes for most old record companys. and it is even harder to complete because of little known companys were bought up by the big ones and all files were just stuffed in a warehouse and not logged in to any library system when they were bought. so that is still not completed and with the fires and bad roof's of the buildings the ones that are lost were mostly the small unknown companys.
so with all that the only way the album info online will be correct is by someone having that original album putting the info on the web for everyone.
the company i was talking with was the one that made the CMA albums, thats ( Country Music Assocation, ) or the company that bought them out. the album i have that they have no information for was made in 1976 so its not that old.
but how many others from back then or before then have been lost in their files?
the trouble with users adding the information online is that we don't know what numbers are used for what form of information by the record producers so we can't add the info up and make it automaticly go to that album each time somebody searches for it. what we need to do is be as correct as possible with everything on the album exact title of album and all tracks on the album and all time's and all people involved on that album. but you know how long that can take for one album.
when each song might have 20 different people involved with it and there are 10 to 20 songs on the album.
with all that info above that is reason why i don't really like auto tagging. i'd rather type it in. and from the new android phone i have that da.... google player on there keeps getting turned on to auto sync some how? and it screws up the info from its ......up database that it uses, is just proof that i'm correct in not trusting online database's they more likely won't be correct for any album over 3 years old, and my guess is those newer ones still won't be correct for another 50 years from now.
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