And As For You, I Know Don't You But I'm Sure You're A Jerk!

I'm sick as a dog, so I'm irritable and as such I'm going to bitch about something here:  People who seem to think that the year field on MP3s is for the year they encoded it.  Same goes for those who think that the artist field should have their name, or anything like that.

The purpose of the tags is fairly well defined, and, as such, they serve a specific purpose: not to glorify yourself, but to help identify a particular audio recording — be it a speech, radio broadcast, &c.  If you want to praise yourself to high heavens then that's what the comments field is for.  We use ID3v2.x now, we can write whatever we want, and not worry about the 28 character^* limit on the comment field.  (Same goes for people who classify every MP3 with the genre 'Blues', but I get the feeling that I should be bitching at programmers who make that the default choice for their encoding application.)

Finally, if you're in any way related to the person who's been filling my comments with spam, then I currently hate you more than anyone else on Earth.  For everyone else: MT-Blacklist is now active.  If you get a message telling you you're comment has been blocked, let me know.

^*Alternatively, there was also the 30 character comment field.  Of course, that's only for people who remember ID3v1.0 and the days before the track number field.

Title value is: one point.  Category is: hell diddily-ding-dong crap!