Bah

[kingandy]

Just found out that the remix of "Magic Carpet Ride" from the "Go" soundtrack is not in fact by Crystal Method, as my MP3 player informs me, but somebody called Philip Steir. I can only assume that it was mislabelled when I downloaded it. Why do people do that? Is it ignorance or malice? I have this vague notion that it may be in order to trick people into buying an album by an artist because they've heard something they liked that's apparently by that artist...

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[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Ignorance probably. Pretty much any satirical song on the file sharing networks is labeled as Weird Al even though many of them are not at all. Given the number of miss-tagged and badly tagged MP3's/Ogg's/etc out there I find it useful to have a decent tag editor handy.

[kingandy]

Ah, now I've always put the parody = Wierd Al mislabelling as false advertising - that is to say, somebody's done their own crappy version of a song and decided "If I say it's Wierd Al people will download it and listen to it!" What I don't get is mislabelling other people's stuff. It's not always the person you've downloaded it from - they may have got it from somewhere else, after all - but ultimately somebody somewhere laughing to himself the bastard.

[kermix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it happens with just about every artist, I'm pretty sure. I don't call it "ignorance" but I might as well. Though I think, in some cases, it's a bit of arrogance as well; it's not always possible to know a band's sound so well that you can point them out every time you hear a song that sounds like them. How many people have mistaken the dissertation on the word "fuck" for George Carlin, simply because it's about the word "fuck"?

[redhillian.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you've got a copy of that anywhere have you? The only one I've seen recently was a terrible flash version of it with spelling errors all over the thing.

[kermix.livejournal.com]

Heck, you can probably find it on p2p by looking for George Carlin or Denis Leary. At one point I saw it (and the similar faux Delta Airlines commercial) credited to John London, but don't quote me on that.

[samharber.livejournal.com]

Its not just music files. I've tried to download Warcraft 3 several times, but its always been some NFL football game whenever I install it.

However... that is a deliberate ploy, renameing a file by what is essential a poorley known band by another is just stupidity.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Similar malicious cases to Sam's - The Matrix Reloaded was splashed over loads of P2P networks about a fortnight before it came out. However, it was in fact Elmo Saves Christmas.

Some bugger had even gone to the task of encoding it with different software / compression to get about a half dozen files of misleadingly similar size, so that unlike the Adobe Photoshop renamed as a DVD title, which is easy to spot, people (such as Carl at work)were downloading Elmo up to six times.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

I try not to download music.

Not because it's wrong; it's because 90% of the time, some retarded chimp has arsed up the encoding / added "effects" / labelled everything wrong / decided to mix partially corrupt OGG and very poor quality MP3 on one albumn FOR NO REASON KNOWN TO MAN.

So if I like something, I'll see if I can grab the album. I'll put it in it's own little quarantined folder, have a listen, and then purge it so thorougly that Uncle Joe Stalin would be proud.

[kingandy]

Somehow I didn't think you'd be objecting on moral grounds.