i was listening to (or trying to listen to) the beatles on my zune yesterday. my beatles collection is large. i own about 10 albums. the red and blue sets, beatles 1, and at least 5 other regular beatles that i can think of off the top of my head.
when i ripped my entire CD collection on my laptop with media player i ripped all my beatles CDs. this left me with duplicate songs. i didn’t mind. in fact, i decided to recreate all the beatles albums i could with the songs from the 5 collection albums and other songs i had downloaded. all went perfectly. i had almost every beatles album (though many were incomplete) on my zune plus the collections. cool!
our problem started when i copied all my music to my new desktop for syncing with my zune 80. all the music came over just fine, but the zune software does not recognize many of the duplicate files. that’s especially strange because the files are not technically duplicates. i copied all the songs into an album structure and edited their tag information so they would look like different songs that just happen to have the same title, just like the songs i had ripped from the original CDs as well as from the collection CDs.
i tried manually dragging and dropping songs into the zune application but this did not help. what was really weird is that it was not all the duplicates. maybe 60-70%. and weirder still, it would show the song from the collection folder in the album of the original fake album. how strange is that? so the collections only had 3-8 songs per album instead of 13-14.
as an interim fix i create a red and blue playlist for the beatles.
on another beatles note… i listen to music at work with one ear bud only, leaving the other on my desk. i am not good at work with both earphones in. i went through all my beatles songs and built a playlist of songs that are acceptable to listen to with only the left channel. there are a quite a few songs that have serious stereo separation and have the main lyrics are on the right channel. i am listening to this playlist right now. in case your curious the playlist is 75 songs long.
