Is there somebody out there who cannot spell Gordon??

johnfowles · 05-12-2004, 10:39 AM

Having been taken to task on the Newsgroup for mis-spelling the simple word blame as blaim.
I feel bound to ask the question above.
Why?
Well many years ago I actually purchased the full version of the most
excellent program(me) MusicMatch. This I always set to be my default player of CDs and mp3s.One of the best features for playing CDs I found Much To My Surprise the
first time I played a Gord CD whilst connected to the internet. suddenly instead of plain and boring "track 1" etc the real song titles appeared on the MM playlist. It transpired that built in to MM is a system whereby it
immediately contacts what was originally CDDB (CD DataBase) but they were
taken over I believe by http://www.freedb.com (currently being revised) and if the CD identification number is in the database already the track listing
is displayed.BTW these listings are uploaded by punters like us.There is a very comprehensive collection of Gord CDs up there, including a bootleg (which originally had a couple of erroneous track names such as "Garden Rag" that I corrected to The Auctioneer).Yesterday I thought I might add
"Harmony" but having put my copy in my PC's CD player I found that someone had beaten me to it, However inexplicably the Artist name had been typo'd as Girdon (Now corrected by me). Just thought you'd like to know.
Another useful MM feature is that should you have a collection of mp3s there is a facility to attach the album artwork to the mp3 file so that when the mp3 plays the
artwork is displayed(this is part of the mp3 "id3 tag" system).I know how to add artwork to mp3s but cannot find out if the image file can be uploaded to the database for display when the cd plays. does anyone here know about this??
and is anyone going to admit to the "Girdon" typo as shown in the screenshot below
(it is not too clear but all 12 instances of "Gordon" are spelt with an "i")??

John Fowles

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited May 12, 2004).]

johnfowles · 05-12-2004, 10:39 AM

Having been taken to task on the Newsgroup for mis-spelling the simple word blame as blaim.
I feel bound to ask the question above.
Why?
Well many years ago I actually purchased the full version of the most
excellent program(me) MusicMatch. This I always set to be my default player of CDs and mp3s.One of the best features for playing CDs I found Much To My Surprise the
first time I played a Gord CD whilst connected to the internet. suddenly instead of plain and boring "track 1" etc the real song titles appeared on the MM playlist. It transpired that built in to MM is a system whereby it
immediately contacts what was originally CDDB (CD DataBase) but they were
taken over I believe by http://www.freedb.com (currently being revised) and if the CD identification number is in the database already the track listing
is displayed.BTW these listings are uploaded by punters like us.There is a very comprehensive collection of Gord CDs up there, including a bootleg (which originally had a couple of erroneous track names such as "Garden Rag" that I corrected to The Auctioneer).Yesterday I thought I might add
"Harmony" but having put my copy in my PC's CD player I found that someone had beaten me to it, However inexplicably the Artist name had been typo'd as Girdon (Now corrected by me). Just thought you'd like to know.
Another useful MM feature is that should you have a collection of mp3s there is a facility to attach the album artwork to the mp3 file so that when the mp3 plays the
artwork is displayed(this is part of the mp3 "id3 tag" system).I know how to add artwork to mp3s but cannot find out if the image file can be uploaded to the database for display when the cd plays. does anyone here know about this??
and is anyone going to admit to the "Girdon" typo as shown in the screenshot below
(it is not too clear but all 12 instances of "Gordon" are spelt with an "i")??

John Fowles

------------------
My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited May 12, 2004).]

Borderstone · 05-13-2004, 02:52 AM

Well John,many is the time I've spelled his name (and then corrected it in editing) Gorodon or Gorden or even (I don't know how I did this) Goreadmn! I must've been ti-red!

I bet if you went to the music download site Limewire,you'd find mispelling's by the dozen!

Aurevoir,man!

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"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm."

- Borderstone


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