This post is written by Kent Dodds, he was the author of the KD Productions Blog. You can find more about him on his FAQ page.
Dear Google, this isn’t just a new feature, but a whole new program. I think that with the direction I see Google going this would fit right in. That direction that I am seeing could best be defined as:
Helping the world and its information become more organized in the least expensive way possible for the world.
This is what I love about Google and this is why I’m coming to you with this suggestion (along with the fact that I know you will do extremely well with the idea if you decide to implement it into your labs projects).
Here is the idea:
Music. Music is becoming some of the most unorganized pieces of information on the hard drive of any computer. Unless that computer happens to be run by someone like me who hates anything unorganized and spends hours upon hours making sure that it is organized. Now, whenever someone needs to find a song in windows explorer, they can’t do it, because it always has some sort of funky name. Or, if someone wants to play a certain genre on their iPod, normally they’ll find that many songs labeled with that genre definitely don’t belong in that genre. I’m talking about:
- Filename organization (less important to many) and
- Meta data (super important to all).
Now, I know that Windows Media Player and iTunes both have features where, if you stick in a CD that you got from the store, normally they’ll have information about that CD and it’ll label everything just fine for you. But what about music that you get elsewhere? I know, and you know that music comes from a variety of places and in most cases doesn’t come all at the same time, it comes song by song. Therefore, why not have a program (in my opinion download-able would be best) that could match up the waveform of each individual song and find all of the meta data for it and label it with that, and then let the user apply a certain filenaming system like Artist - Title.mp3 or Soundtrack - Artist - Title - Version - Year - Whatever.mp3.
Lots of programs have a renaming function already, but no program that I have ever heard of has made use of matching up waveforms to make sure that a song is what it says that it is. This is my vision. I’m no programmer, believe me, I’ve tried. Otherwise I would be at work at this myself and then sell you the idea ;D Because I know you could publicize this a lot better than anyone else and it would benefit a lot more people than if I tried to do it myself. That’s why I don’t hire someone to do it for me. Here is my idea of how this program would function (like I said, I’m no programmer, but I think this would work out well).
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