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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Simon Wistow wrote: > However, the single biggest hate I have so far is why the auto > complete in the ID3 field editor. Here's how to replicate the hate ... > > 1) Obtain mp3 from somewhere > 2) Realise that ID3 tag, whilst technically correct, is lowercased > 3) Try and edit that > 4) Have iTunes know better than you do and autocomplete the field back > to the lowercase version > 5) Try again > 6) Have same experience > 7) Scream. Curse. Rant. > 8) Edit the field to say "Foo" > 9) Rename it back to Properly Capsed Version of Name > 10) Repeat with other MP3s > 11) See 7 Yeah, I think this is a side-effect from the whole "case-insensitive, but case-preserving" filesystem thing on both Macs and Windows -- searches & matches ignore case, but files are stored with whatever case you originally created them with, and renaming to some case-variant where the spelling is otherwise the same ends up being a no-op. The Mac Finder and, as far as I can recall, Windows Explorer, both end up doing the same behavior in this situation. The way I get around this is to add gibberish to the beginning or end of the name, save, then delete that, save. 3) Rename: "inna gadda davida" -> "Inna Gadda Davida Baybee" 4) Hit save. It works. 5) Rename: "Inna Gadda Davida Baybee" -> "Inna Gadda Davida" 6) Hit save. It works. Not ideal, but slightly less typing & remembering than the other way. -- Chris Devers
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