{"id":7338,"date":"2009-11-13T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2009-11-13T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:45:47","slug":"oh-itunes-why-do-you-torment-me-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7338","title":{"rendered":"Oh iTunes, Why do you torment me so?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many half-assed features in iTunes is the way it handles album artwork. If you ripped the CDs yourself, iTunes won't associate an album cover with the songs, and then you wont have anything to look at while the song plays! Oh noes. But, you can tell iTunes to go forth into the wilderness and gather the album covers unto itself. It does a terrible job of this. Just terrible.<\/p>\n<p>For its latest failure, iTunes chose this cover from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/barrettandsmith\">independent country duo<\/a>, \"Barrett & Smith\":<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/barrett_n_smith.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>...for Elliott Smith's self-titled album. <\/p>\n<p>I checked out the MP3s to see if there was a chance they didn't contain enough info to identify the album. The artist is \"Elliott Smith\", the album is \"Elliott Smith\", the composer is \"Elliott Smith\". <\/p>\n<p>On what planet does \"Elliott Smith\" = \"Barrett & Smith\", three times ?<\/p>\n<p>iTunes exhibits failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many half-assed features in iTunes is the way it handles album artwork. If you ripped the CDs yourself, iTunes won't associate an album cover with the songs, and then you wont have anything to look at while the song plays! Oh noes. But, you can tell iTunes to go forth into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}