Another miss for Zune

Or, if you'd prefer looking at the big picture, then Microsoft.

A long time ago I ran this weird process to figure out the largest folders (artists) in my hard drive. Beatles were first (that made me very happy), followed closely by the 'Stones.

Well, today I decided to add the 'Stones to the Zune software. I noticed there were about 30 albums. When I added them, I noticed on the bottom of the software it said about 720 songs were added. I headed over to the 'Stones in the software, and what I saw surprised me.

There were 160 songs.

I don't remember how I ended up there, but I headed over to Unknown Artist. There were a TON of albums there, more than I had remembered. I clicked on some of them, noting the fact that each album had only one song. Hmmmm...

It was then I realized that those Unknown Albums were all sub-titled (5/6/09).

Oh. My. Gosh. The Zune software had separated 500 'Stones songs into 500 one-track albums.

Now, I don't know if the metadata is screwed up, and that it's not the software's fault at all. I really don't know. I don't know how to view metadata anyways. I don't know why it would be screwed up, though, because there are only about 30 albums in the 'Stones folder on the harddrive.

I could probably just sort the songs into their respective albums. It's be easy- so I thought. I had believed that the first ten songs would be from the first album, the next ten songs from the second album, and so on. Unfortunately, no. It's all random.

This really sucks, if you haven't realized it. (Honestly, I don't know who I'm talking to. Nobody visits this blog.) I think this is really gonna make my listening experience painful. Eh, I'll wait to listen to them until this gets all sorted out.

Until next time,

-Ben