Sooooo, I finally did it. Some four weeks ago, came the end of an era. I switched to Mac after 13 years of obsessive PC use. I know this is not a big thing to you, the reader, but for me it was huge. Anyways, some weeks into Mac use it feels 100% great. I think the DC client Shakespear is not too bad, there were loads of free software to replace all the earlier PC stuff. Everything is just peachy in the rosegarden with me and my Mac. There is just two little things that bug me, they are there like a splinter in my eye and I cant shake the feeling it must mean something, although it proably don’t. It’s just that the program used by IFPI and another program by Gracenote to assess information about songs that eventually pop up in your iTunes, Zune(seriously, who use them?) and computers when you pop in a CD and rip the songs is NOT AVAILABLE FOR MAC. It took me four weeks to be the kind of Mac user that gets upset by this. I think it’s incredibly ironic though that Gracenote, that must have built it’s entire company on the sucess of iTunes does not have a Mac-compatible program for content providers.
Since Gracenote has some kind of monopoly on providing information about a record labels releases, that means that all record labels in the world must have a PC to get the information on iTunes etc right. This is wrong and I will mumble bad words in a silent protest and then carry on, you can all join me in my mumbling. Go ahead.
Mumble, mumble.
5 Comments
1 Nancy Baym wrote:
This is either regional blocking or you’ve got a glitch in the system somewhere — Gracenote reads all but the most obscure of my CDs just fine when I pop them into my mac to burn them into iTunes and ports all the metadata into the import.
2 Mattias Lövkvist wrote:
Maybe I was unclear. It is not that Gracenote informatin doesn’t work on a Mac. It’s the Gracenote Software that we, the record label, uses to secure that our artists got the right information that shows up when people pops in the CD in their computer.
Mail conversation with Gracenote:
Dear Partner:
We have updated the Gracenote Content Partner Application (CPA) to version 2.6.3. With this update we have improved the distribution and installation process. We recommend that you update to this new version.
RE:
Hello,
Was a while I got this. However, trying to download it now. Do you have Gracenote available for MAC? I have a Mac nowadays and this wont run on it.
Best,
/Mattias
Re:Re:
Mattias,
unfortunately we do not have a mac version.
Cheers
xxxxx
3 Nancy Baym wrote:
Well that’s messed up :/
4 JC wrote:
I love ho w the open sourse geeks choose the very walled garden called Mac.
5 Ciryon wrote:
Welcome to the bright side!
You have many months of fun exploring ahead of you. Still after many years I occasionally find something clever and useful. Try holding down ctrl and use mousewheel. Or press cmd-ctrl-d while holding mouse cursor over any word.