In which the Gracenote database gets confused.

[tree_and_leaf]

I've just noticed that the CD of Malcolm Arnold's Dances, which I'd just burned into iTunes, appeared under the genre 'alternative and punk'. (For those of you who aren't familiar with them, they are pleasant light classical, vaguely folk-inspired pieces, and if you ever watched 'What the papers say', then you will have heard the first movement of 'English Dances Set II')

This is, in its way, the funniest thing I've seen all day.

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[juno-magic.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnort*

I've got a cd that iTunes calls "Unclassifiable" - that always amuses me a lot, too, especially since it's pretty straightforward pop music!

[tree_and_leaf]

I had an 'unclassifiable' once, too - I think it was actually an audiobook.

The database-querying function saves a lot of time, but it can be pretty weird - and it's particularly buggy when it comes to classical music, but I suppose that's partly because the iTunes fields don't work that well for music whee the composer is more important than the artist(s); unless you're the sort of person who has multiple recordings of the same pieces, but I'm not really that much of a music geek.