Data Grooming feature of podServe CD ripping service

Data Grooming - Removing those annoying inconsistencies in your music library.

Our state of the art software looks at your entire library - every track - and corrects these annoying inconsistencies. This is a standard part of our CD ripping service.

Classical Composer Names
Mozart. Or Mozart WA, or WA Mozart or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Or even all the variations? We have a master list of 100 classical composers and we standardise on surnames only; so names are consistent through your library.

Disc Numbers
(Disc 1) followed by [Disc 2] or Two or 2? Maybe disc sets out of order? We make sure disc numbering is consistent and orderly.

Greatest Hits? Best of?
Have you ended up with one giant “Greatest Hits” album crammed with dozens of artists? We simply append the artists name to Best of or Greatest Hits, you get a meaningful, well ordered music library.

Quirky Qualifiers
Bonus Tracks, UK, Import, UK Edition, Live - little qualifiers added at the end of album names. Too much, too confusing. We edit them all away so you just get the album name.

Featuring Fiasco?
Often the main artists name is joined with one or more performers, it’s accurate but it results in multiple entries for each main artist. Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z or Artful Dodger Featuring Lifford David and so on. If that helps you fine, but we can also remove “feat.” plus other distracting data. You get an artists list that’s shorter and easier to navigate. For example on a collection of 400 CDs we were able to remove 240 surplus entries in the artists list. Just let us know if you’d like us to weed out the strays.

Duplicate Albums
Most of us have a couple of copies of an album, and we don’t want you to have to pay twice. So we go through your collection and delete duplicate albums, that means you only pay once and you don’t suffer from having two copies of each track in an album.

Composers
For most people the name of the composer is only significant in the case of classical music. We have the option to delete the composer’s name in everything except classical music, giving you a cleaner source of the music you’re looking for. If you’d like us to do this for you just let us know.

Questions?
Just ring 08000 407 896 or here.

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