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Google Voice: New, Improved, & Still Disappointing - http://current.com/items...
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Iain, Courtney Engle, Shea and 16 other people liked this
Thx for liking, but I simply MUST insist that you also weigh in! I want to get some good Google Voice info out of your comments... here, on the Current.com page, Facebook, whatever.
- Sarah Lane
What, you gonna deny a poor little woman with a brain tumor? I think not. ;)
- Sarah Lane
Also! My Google Voice number is in this segment for all to admire. And so's my cell phone number, but I tried pretty hard to blur that one out. :)
- Sarah Lane
I have some good stuff, will post tomorrow during the living hours.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
Sorry, Sarah - can't be monitoring FF *all* the time... :) I honestly haven't used Google Voice much for some of the same reasons you mentioned. For some reason my number is firmly stuck in my head, but I haven't given it out to many folks (more out of laziness than anything, since my friends all have my cell number already). Haven't run into the issue with voicemail (even though I have...
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- Thomas
Sarah - you're right - it pretty much sucks if you don't give out your Google Voice number. The lack of Visual Voicemail integration is also a big let-down. I've experimented with it by distributing my GV number to Facebook contacts who I don't want stalking me (I made a group for them). I've found that the inbound calling, and SMS forwarding is really cool and works flawlessly. Outbound calling and voicemails requires a visit to the GV mobile page (which I keep open in Safari on my iPhone).
- Ankush Narula
Thinking about it some more, I can see a use where you give the GV number to all your creditors and potential telemarketers. I use my land line for that now, but eventually I want to get rid of that. Another use - if you want a number in a different area code. As someone who wants to eventually sell a screenplay, it might behoove me at some point to get a number in the 310 area code to...
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- Thomas
One more thing. Here are a couple of useful links I found courtesy of LifeHacker: Making the Transition - http://lifehacker.com/5311254... and Potentially getting unlimited calls with GV - http://lifehacker.com/5382770... I'll need to try out both... :)
- Thomas
awesome, thx for those Thomas!
- Sarah Lane
I love Sarah because she hasn't abandoned FriendFeed like the rest of the geeks. Keep using it Sarah! I'm even more a follower now than ever.
- Jesse Stay
Happy to help :)
- Thomas
from FreshFeed
I agree that giving it to people who I really don't want to have my number is nice. If you don't really want to hear from them, just let it go to voice mail. And if you do, no worries, you can add them to your friend group. Also if you're in some networking environment, you really don't have to worry about who exactly you give your number out to. I did try to tie it to my Skype account but it did not like that at all.
- Jerry Perez
I like GV's send to VM between certain times. So when I sleep I don't have to hear a phone ring unless so are so important to me I allow your call to come through. This way I can sleep but still receive potentially emergency phone calls. Also, I have used one is a home phone replacement so if people call it, it will ring my phones, my gf, and the kids. And I can see other great...
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- Philip Griego
Google Voice works really well *if* you have a good application to deal with the Voicemails. I installed GV Mobile on my (jailbroken) iPhone. Since they recently added the "use GV as voicemail" feature, I find that I'm using it a lot more than before. The basic problem with GV is that it's not a voicemail replacement, as such (though it has that sort of functionality now). It works best...
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- Otto
I'm using Google Voice and like it. It's still better than the crappy voicemail from the cable company or cell phone company. I don't have any app to run it on my phone and don't need one. I voice dial to get the messages. Works great.
- Dave Friedel
I use GV as the voice mail for my Podcast. Works great for that. Also use it for all of my phones, ...well, that is mmm, okay. I really wish it was a bit more flexible.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Hate the lack of support to visual voicemail and that I have to go to Google Voice's page to make a call if I want my number to show on outbound calls. LOVE the fact that I can give my GV # to potential employers so they don't have to worry about reaching a number I'm not at.
- ChiliMac
If I could get Google voice to just let voicemails go to my IPhone I'd be happy.
- ChiliMac
google voice just seems redundant. unless you give up your cell phone (which nobody will do) its just another way to do the same thing with (as you said) one more phone / log in / password / gadget. It wont last. Friend feed, Skype, and Twitter are NEW ways to communicate. I just got rid of my TV to watch everything online (Hule, Twit.tv...etc.) This was a way to get rid of a redundancy. Creating consolidation tech is where its at, not new ways to do old things, I think it will fade away. Gr8 vid.
- echostreamer
The real feature for GV is small business. So many telcos have SMBs over a barrel with terrible features. These people can't afford a PBX with forward and follow features. They could hook up a GV number, including their established line, and allow for forwards to any number, without the need to put 5 different numbers on their business cards. This is really a killer feature, and visual voicemail won't matter to those people. (also posted to current)
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I'm probably a minority here, but since I have an Android phone I'll chime in: GV works like a charm (including masking my number on outbound calls/sms) using the GV app for my phone.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
My use case is probably different then most. I use GV almost exclusively as a web based PBX. Very rarely do I use it on a cell phone unless the number is being forwarded there. I also use the number experimentally with widgets or by posting on developmental sites to track conversions that take the route of inbound phone traffic as opposed to an online sale. I also like the fact that messages are recorded online so I can forward them as needed.
- Eric Logan
Favorite Google Voice feature: voicemail transcription sent to my cell via SMS and/or email.
- Shea
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7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School - http://www.copyblogger.com/bad-wri...
Awesome Lichtenstein pop art costume: http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott... (via @Fee501st)
FYI: Andrew Bird is doing 3 shows at 4th Pres on Michigan Ave in Decemeber. Just got my tix.
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Pulling the TV cord yet staying plugged in -- latimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/busines...
Craig Sheldon, ChiliMac, George Dearing and Ulrich Hilger liked this
""Finally, this kind of sensibility is coming to the king category of consumer electronics -- television." Viewers who watch on their computers (or a computer hooked to TVs) have vastly more choices. According to the Fancast website, which provides links to online video, there are more than 1,000 former and current TV series with full episodes on the Web. Common among many who have cut the cord is a sense of rebellion, not against TV but against service providers. They believe their way of watching represents the future of TV -- online and on demand. "The No. 1 factor of why people watch online is convenience," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board consumer research center. The cable industry knows it could be in for a fight. "Clearly this is a growing trend," said Alex Dudley, spokesman for Time Warner Cable, which has 14.6 million subscribers nationwide."
- Thomas Hawk
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12seconds - Halloween?? http://12seconds.tv/channel...
Thomas, ChiliMac, djmads and 3 other people liked this
What's wrong with your crazy cat lady outfit??
- Jerry Perez
But like I said, Max from 'Wild Things' would be cool. IMHO
- Jerry Perez
I like Dave's idea - Balloon Girl :)
- Thomas
You're right, I could do crazy cat lady or Zoe from L4D
- Veronica
Zoe wouldn't be a bad idea. Is there a way to be 'Crazy Cat Zoe'?
- Jerry Perez
I vote for Crazy Cat Lady
- Carlos Urrutia
If you could get some of your friends to dress up as Ron Howard, maybe get a sign for around your neck that says "Audi 5000" and wear the cat-lady outfit, you could go as FriendFeed...
- Thomas
LOL! That thread is not going to die, even in spirit eh? :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Dr. Girlfriend only works if you have a Monarch.
- Veronica
Not if you go as Lady Au Pair...
- Thomas
I came across this 'dead Barbie' suggestion while hunting for ideas (http://familycrafts.about.com/od...), which'd work with the recent pink rant. Kinda.
- Amy
BALLOON GIRL, BALLOON GIRL, BALLOON GIRL.
- Dave Friedel
Im too short to go has Monarch, but i could be Dr. Venture! Also i 2nd the Zoey idea!
- Fee501st
BALLOON GIRL ---> http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Dave Friedel
Dave: lol nice
- Fee501st
lol
- Thomas
speaking of parties! You going to any Windows 7 Parties? lol
- Fee501st
no.
- Veronica
lol! I didn't think you would really answer that, i was just being silly! :D I'm watching Leo's
- Fee501st
I watched Leo's for a while earlier. About as riveting as I expected a party revolving around an OS install to be... :)
- Thomas
well Today's TZ is all about Windows 7! That close enough ;)
- Fee501st
Maybe I'll watch it while my win7 iso downloads. BTW, if anyone pre-ordered windows 7 from the Microsoft Store, has GMail, and is still waiting for their download e-mail, check your spam folder. That's where I found mine. Never mind that an email from the same domain was let through a few weeks ago. Not intentional by Google at all, I'm sure...
- Thomas
You could always dress as a modern Hamlet. Its not that difficult. Just wear all black, walk around with a skull and look like you are being crushed by the weight of your ennui. :)
- Carlos Urrutia
You should dress as Dr. Horrible's Penny!
- Jason Wong
from iPod
Hahahaha.... :)
- Thomas
Lol, i'm not saying this to be a smart ass but I just thought she should go has Codex, think about the freak out you would cause! >:)
- Fee501st
would felicia day be able to ship her outfit to her in time? :) (there fixed)
- Carlos Urrutia
lol :D
- Fee501st
fee: i didn't realize that until you mentioned it :)
- Carlos Urrutia
what have i done...
- Dave Friedel
Lightroom 3 Beta is Out - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
Roberto Bonini, ChiliMac, Kenton and 2 other people liked this
I have used Aperture for a while. I will check this out though.
- Spencer
I used to use LR, but when Aperture 2 came out, I switched over. I gave LR a couple days worth of trying and what not and I still have the same problem with it: its too cluttered and does a poor job of having the tools I want/need where I'd like to have them. The flickr export is indeed nice, but I have a plugin for Ap2 that does the same thing. Maybe one other day I'll sit down with LR and find it easier, but thats not today and its not LR3.
- Almond Dhukka
Jemm, ChiliMac, David C. Cooper and 3 other people liked this
that's too funny...
- The Coast Radio
Do they have gigabit on the ship? I smell a high seas LAN party. ^^
- David C. Cooper
Heck yeah! No one will give you crap when you hop on your laptop rather then lay out by the pool. Gaming on vacation would be mandatory. Screw the sight seeing, show me where the free hotspots are!
- ChiliMac
OLD MAN RANT: I refuse to call it "Wiilis" Tower. When they tear it down and put up a new building, they can call it any fool thing they want. But I refuse to call it "Willis Tower".
ChiliMac, Alex Scoble, Roberto Bonini and 2 other people liked this
wat?
- holly
Thanks, Holly. Not enough cilantro in my eggs this morning.
- Steven Perez
or maybe too much? :D
- holly
WHATCHU TALKIN' 'BOUT, WILLIS?
- Josh Haley
What you talking 'bout..."Willis"?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
LOL! My friend works for Willis... He said they got that building so cheap it's sad because it's mostly empty.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
totally beat that Grift dude.
- Josh Haley
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw "Willis Tower" was: Yippee-ki-yay, motherf---er! >_>
- Arlan Koizumi
i bet you;re taking about Sears Tower, right??
- Roberto Bonini
You'd bet right.
- Steven Perez
I thought the same way until I heard a news anchor call it the "Big Willy". That's a name I can't resist using.
- ChiliMac
Beagle Puppy Attacks Rottweiler - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Christopher Feyrer, Christopher Granade, Ňicķ and 7 other people liked this
CUTE OVERLOAD!!
- Alex Scoble
Just way too cute!
- Gary Oswald
I think my favorite parts is when the puppy leave the frame to get a running start to jump onto the rottweiler. Absolutely adorable! :D
- Heather Nielsen
My favorite part is when the puppy tries to hang on the Rotti's ear.
- Christopher Granade
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. - http://annieisms.tumblr.com/post...
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So, did Ballmer lie to us about no Netbook upgrade path forthcoming? Or did we give them the idea? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
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This is Photobomb | Photojackers of the World Unite! - http://thisisphotobomb.com/
Kol Tregaskes, ChiliMac, winckel and 9 other people liked this
I love photobombs!
- Shevonne
Twitter could use that fail whale pic.
- Mike Nencetti
fantastic.
- Chieze Okoye
bobbymiller: Where the Wild Things Are…after they grew up and started interning at the Reel Good Show. Featuring my stupid face, Mike Johnson, Jake Strunk, & Anthony Carboni. Leave us a comment/rate if you dig it. Full show coming later today with the filmmakers behind Happy Birthday Harris Malden. I have watched this 3 times in a row already, I... - http://annieisms.tumblr.com/post...
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this was epically funny! Where the Wild Things Are...after they grew up and started interning at the Reel Good Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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AT&T to FCC: Rules must apply to Google too - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
Daniel Rowley, Richard Bitting, Roberto Bonini and ChiliMac liked this
I'm thinking that seems wrong to me. Now they'll go after Skype and others I'm sure. Trying to force old fashioned rules onto new technology.
- Richard Bitting
applying old paradigms to new ones. Good luck with that.
- Garmon Estes
Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I gotta get this for my collection. I grew up listening to his shows.
- Allen Christensen
Flickr: Discussing Youtube Removes Video of Maguire Properties Guard Harassing Photographer in Photography is not a crime - http://www.flickr.com/groups...
ChiliMac, Shepherd Johnson, Alex Scrivener and 3 other people liked this
"So it's official, Youtube removed the most recent video of a Maguire Properties' security guard harassing me while taking pictures of The Gas Company Tower. I am going to upload the video to another account and suggest that everybody download the video using vixy.net and then upload it to their accounts. This moved by Youtube is absolute BS. Who knows why they agreed to remove the video, but the entire encounter took place on a public sidewalk. There is no expectation of privacy! If you would like to tell Maxwell/The Youtube Team what you think about the removal of this video here is the email to respond to and the case number. support@youtube.com Make sure to put this info in the subject: Re: [#519691802] YouTube Support ----------------------- Here is the email I received from Maxwell/The Youtube Team Hi there, Thanks for your email. We have removed the material in question for a privacy violation, pursuant to our Community Guidelines. It may take some time for video search results...
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- Thomas Hawk
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Unfortunately it appears that YouTube is removing videos taken of people on the public street in public situations. When you are in public there is no expectation of privacy. To censor a video because someone objects to being in a video is poor company policy. Apparently this video (no longer there)...
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- Thomas Hawk
Probably flickr's best group.
- Shepherd Johnson
Fuck this attitude on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Mrsth, Beau Liening, ChiliMac and 17 other people liked this
Flickr needs to get their Community ducks in a row and stop using blatant content destruction as their only corrective action. Heather, in particular, acting as Community manager, needs to step up her game to a more adult level and learn to let the Flickr Community grow without her motherhood. More tomorrow, if the mere mention of her name as Community Manager on Flickr doesn't get me deleted.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
I'm sensing some hostility.
- Raphael, Raphael
yeah hostility sometimes happens when without warning or any possibility of correction you destroy literally thousand's of hours of people's work. Other people's work that didn't belong to you. Work that they invested not only thousands of hours of work and energy on but significant emotional energy as well. Especially when plenty of things could have been done to remove material that...
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- Thomas Hawk
I just noticed the following on the above photo: This image was moderated as SAFE, PHOTO by Flickr Staff. What does that mean? I can't mark it as anything other, so I imagine they NIPSAd it?
- Pierre Honeyman
A lot of my photos that are NIPSA'd on Flickr are labeled "safe photo" Pierre. When they NIPSA your photos they prefer to do it behind your back. Put a unique tag on the image and then see if you can search for that tag and have it come up. Probably not. Flickr likes to hide speech that is critical of them. You won't have that problem here at friendfeed. If someone doesn't like something here they simply block you. It's a lot easier that way.
- Thomas Hawk
Yeah, I put a unique tag on. I requested a review of the image with the question "What does this mean?"
- Pierre Honeyman
yep, they've NIPSA'd it. if you're logged out it doesn't come up under this search. http://www.flickr.com/search...
- Thomas Hawk
Let's see if I get a response. But damn, that was fast.
- Pierre Honeyman
Indeed Pierre, they like to nip dissent in the bud. Funny that Stewart Butterfield could say the word "fuck" in a public interview on a video promoting the site when he worked for Yahoo and ran Flickr, but they censor your photo for it. I wonder if the fact that your message is critical of them has anything to do with the censorship in this case.
- Thomas Hawk
I have other identical photos with worse language that are not NIPSA.
- Pierre Honeyman
Have they ever responded to you when you've requested a review Thomas?
- Pierre Honeyman
It's not the language Pierre, it's the fact that it's critical of flickr at a time when a whole hornet's nest of people are angry at them right now after they nuked a very active a popular group on th esite.
- Thomas Hawk
They don't want it in Explore.
- Pierre Honeyman
Pretty much that's it Pierre. Terrence responded to my request for a review on the photo of the museum painting that they censored and refused to uncensor it. I asked him a respectful question as to why a painting of the backside of a woman in the all ages Institute of Art in Chicago needed to be censored but that the sculpture David which features full male frontal genitalia did not...
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- Thomas Hawk
They'll probably label this one under the "thou shalt not rant" "Guideline"
- Pierre Honeyman
Heather apologized for the team and un-NIPSAd this photo. That was a classy move that I greatly appreciate.
- Pierre Honeyman
link?
- Ricardo Liberato
Well done Pierre.
- Ryan MacLean
Link to what Liber?
- Pierre Honeyman
The actual mail that Heather sent me is in the comment stream of that photo.
- Pierre Honeyman
This....ok, this is my worst nightmare. I cannot be held accountable for your maiming and/or death if you do this to me: http://www.buzzfeed.com/markwma...
ChiliMac, George Brickner, Mellissa and MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) liked this
LOL! I would SO be killed if I did something like that to a friend :) I like living :)
- Carlos Urrutia
I always look behind shower curtains in strange places before I go.
- Veronica
Specially after that video and this close to Halloween :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Would you pass out cold?
- Dave Friedel
No!
- Veronica
Maybe after maiming and/or killing the responsible party :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Heh heh.
- Dave Friedel
I'm with you. There would definitely be death or maiming in the aftermath.
- Jeff Harbert
The responsible party would be smart to wear a Bearonica Suit if he/she wants to survive :)
- Carlos Urrutia
I have to agree. Children of the next 14 generations would tremble in fear at the memory of what I would do to that guy.
- Michael Conguista
Time spent on the throne is sacred. That's like home base!
- Mike Lewis
At least the lights were on when it happened :)
- Carlos Urrutia
*ALWAYS* check behind the shower curtain!
- Sean McCune
Totally, there would be death if someone did that with me
- Amy
Yeah, someone might lose a lung...
- Thomas
Among other things...
- Carlos Urrutia
Thomas: lol! :P
- Amy
Was that directed at me. Discriminating against us 'one-lung' people is illegal you know. And for the record, I think V would pass out cold if someone jumped out at her in the toilet.
- Dave Friedel
Dammit, now the evil bone has awoken... -_-
- Carlos Urrutia
That sounds dirty. LOL.
- Dave Friedel
Captain One-Lung: Nooooo, he's talking about my ninja skills
- Amy
"Captain One-Lung" - I like it :)
- Thomas
Only problem is people will see this and try it, I'm not sharing this with my friends lol
- Fee501st
I only wish I still played the clarinet.
- Carlos Urrutia
Captain One Lung is here to save the day! In a moment... I'm a little out of breath... ok... no wait... ok, here I am!!
- Dave Friedel
*trumpeting intro music*
- Amy
So is your kryptonite a spare-the-air day?
- Thomas
Wouldn't that increase his powers?
- Amy
Of course if you want to get back at the perpetrator, sic Cthulhu on them. Or if he is unavailable, the tshirt of him.
- Carlos Urrutia
I have translucent shower doors so no one can hide. Well maybe the cat as she's very short.
- George Brickner
If you use iTunes on Mac and aren't using Pollux you're missing a treat. http://polluxapp.com/ - free but I just donated. It's so good.
Kolja, ChiliMac, Brad Williamson and 25 other people liked this
Too bad I don't trust anyone's genre assignations other than my own.
- Akiva Moskovitz
thanks for the tip.
- Edgar Rodríguez
thanks leo,now i may have to download it and try it out! looks nice :)
- pcguru626
It just tagged one of my original tunes to Edie Brickell, but otherwise it seems to be getting them all correct!
- B Bagby
I'll give it a try, thax for the info Leo
- Alex
Looks cool, any Windows support coming?
- lawrence kenski
Did you bring down their server? It says something went wrong and to try again later. Or maybe it is not working.
- Alex
it's awesome, i too shall donate
- Paul Meyers
Anything like this at all for the PC.
- Mark Wolvin
It get's my highest praise, "Doesn't suck."
- Steve Feinstein
ok, im amazed. just correctly corrected 162 out of 170 tracks with "track xyz" as their title.
- Jamie
Addons like this, and programs like Coda, are the things pulling me toward buying an iMac. Just can't get myself to do it yet.
- Andres
I don't get how you can get your iTunes library in such a state: http://polluxapp.com/Screens... Without using this app, my iTunes library has all the necessary metadata, and I didn't make any effort to have it like that.
- Paul Grav
Anything similar on windows, on iTunes or foobar or winamp or anything? I'd like to see a program that has a "search for year info on Wikipedia" option. Actually, why isn't there an app where I can manually correct track info on my iPhone while I'm listening and have the corrections sync back?
- Chuck Kahn
Paul, mainly by downloading music illegally from places like Kazaa (is that even around anymore?) and torrents.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from BuddyFeed
Thanks for the link leo!
- Jan Persiel
It may be a coincidence, but I sent this link to my husband and when he tried to download the application he had to force quit Safari and it triggered all kinds of virus messages! He said he was not willing to try to duplicate the problem!
- Ginger Campbell, MD
So, don't run this on compilation/greatest hits albums, unless you want the songs retagged to the original albums.
- Demian Johnston
@Chuck Kahn - A cross platform (albeit more complex) tagger is Jaikox - http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/ I've been using it on the Mac for about a year, much more complicated - and not free... but it works.
- Christopher Aloi
It just gave me errors. F that.
- Fnord
I liked it until it ended up misidentifying a great deal of songs, now I have to take the time to manually edit them back. Or just break out the CDs and rip them all over again. It can't tell the difference between tracks from a live album versus their studio recorded counterparts. It gets an E for effort.
- Bryan K Erickson
It also gets in this state if you were managing music well before iTunes came to PC.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
When I used to do stuff in Windows, I used MP3Tag.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Hooo-Rah!
- Eric Anderson
This app worked perfect for me. Well done!
- Mike Shulman
Gonna try it now ... [edit] Not bad, but made too many mistakes for me to unleash it on the rest of my library.
- Timothy Griffin
I downloaded it and it did not do anything.
- Kelly J
@Kelly J: You need to highlight some songs in iTunes and then click "Tag selected iTunes tracks".
- 321
Very cool idea, but I have tried it on two albums and it got one song wrong both times. It also hasn't grabbed lyrics on any song I've tried so far, and that was main reason for trying it. All my stuff is tagged properly already. Any apps that just grab the lyrics?
- Justin Luey
...well, it is 'beta' software, or has that label lost all meaning these days?
- .LAG liked that
I think some of the data it uses is a bit suspect. One artist, two versions of the same song but different lengths, and they're classed as being from the same album. What's with the lyrics bit - where do they appear?
- Mike Caine
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