Ripping CDs to Hard Drive and Live Recordings


Can anyone give me an explanation as to why some people do the following?  I go to rip a David Bowie box set titled "Live".  The metadata is accessed and the song titles appear.  And this is what I don't understand.  So it's not "Golden Years", but "Golden Years (live)" or "Fame (live)" not "Fame".  Why are people adding "(live)" to the song titles?  And some people uses brackets instead of parentheses just to be more annoyingly supercilious.

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Showing 1 response by jbs

Metadata on CDs is pretty poor and certainly not standardized. Not sure who in the chain does this but it is not the users. The dats is also often wrong and reliably  inconsistent. I always look it over and correct to my liking when ripping.

I have a lot of live music and always modify the "album name" to start with the date of the performance. But that is not what anyone else will find as that only resides in my library. Frustrating for sure so best to just have a good way to modify the metadata.