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You know how when you stick a CD in a computer iTunes or Windows Media Player or whatever accesses some online library that gets the names of the song tracks on the album? And you know how it works out which album is which by working out how long the songs are and how long the album is and comparing it to its database of albums it knows? Well theoretically this means that if an album is exactly the same length and has exactly the same number of songs which are each exactly the same length as another album it won't be able to tell the difference and presumably the more popular album will win out therefore labelling the other album the same as the popular album. Or in simpler language, sometimes iTunes and Windows Media Player think one album is actually another album.

Ladies and gentlemen, Breath of Life (volume 1) by Emmanuel Baptist Fellowship is, as recognised by Windows Media Player, 50 Cent's Get Rich Or Die Trying (Clean Version). 'Breath of Life' is 'P.I.M.P.', 'Sing Out The Lord is Here' is actually 'What Up Gangsta' and 'I Go To The Rock' is in reality 'In Da Club'.

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This gives me lots of ideas of crazy Denial of Service type attacks where some works out the 'submit this album's information' type thing and codes something that repeatedly tells the service that an album should actually be labelled something different. That way when some sticks in an album Windows Media Player would read it as "I'm stupid for buying this album". Track one "I'm an idiot", Track two "really I am". Etc...

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(8) Satin In The Coffin - Modest Mouse

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Mark wrote this at 09:54, Mon, 13/06/05, Link
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Dan

Yeah, very true...But im pretty sure i-tunes gives you the option of which album you want. Because i know when i put in a soul survivor Album, some had submiteed the details in captitals and someone in Normal caps. I rekon Mike Pilavachi had caps lock on personally when he submitted the data :P

Written by Dan at 23:44, Mon, 13/06/05

Benjamin

Thanks for the laughs :D

I use CDex, it brings up a list of possible CD's and asks you to choose what it is. Normally, it's variants on the same thing, eg "Coldplay - X&Y - misc" or "Coldplay - X&Y - newage" which does make me wonder who on earth chooses the album genre...

Written by Benjamin at 02:15, Tue, 14/06/05

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