James Jolly, editor of the Gramophone, was interviewed on Saturday's CD Review on the BBC's Radio 3. He made some observations about his use of an ipod and iTunes, which interested me.
He commented on how the CD itself has now become almost an irrelevant nuisance, and his remarks on the poor organisation and quality of information in iTunes and the Gracenote CDDB they use for song information were spot on. For example, a CD I have of Nikolai Demidenko playing Busoni's transcriptions of Bach organ works returned only a track listing in Japanese script; on Bach again, the details of a recording of the Well-tempered Clavier I have start off correctly, but there must be a missing field in the data somewhere, for they soon get mangled and the key appears in the composer field, etc etc.
I have a Leny Escudéro album, Chante la liberté, which I bought in the iTunes store, which doesn't appear in the database, but I can't upload it. This seems to be because it doesn't have the ISRC code. But how on earth do you find this out? I'm looking....

