Monday, July 31, 2006

Another Annoyance

As I digitize my CD library, I am faced with yet another annoyance: the lack of standardization when it comes to capitalization on titles. I am unsatisfied with the all caps option, or the cap on every word option. I don't claim to be an expert on this but isn't some of this stuff pretty obvious? For example, don't capitalize coordinating conjunctions or articles or prepositions not part of verb phrases. Duh. Get it through your thick skulls, whoever-is-entering-this-information-into-the-giant-CD-information-database person.

Update: I want to apologize for limiting my tirade against those people who input into the database. They can only go with what they've got, which are the CD liner notes themselves. They are pretty darn ambiguous, mostly defaulting to the all caps option. Well, take that music industry. And that!

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