The BBC and Live Earth
What’s with the folk that do captions at the BBC? Only yesterday, I mentioned that the BBC will be using MusicBrainz metadata for the artists and track names mentioned on its music website. And yet they somehow managed to misspell the names of two of the artists at one of the biggest series of gigs on the planet, Live Earth. They had Rihanna listed as “Rhianna” and Alicia Keys named as “Alicia Keyes”.
Unfortunately I can’t back this up with footage from YouTube, as I can only find US recordings there with both singers correctly named. But I know what I saw. You must be able to do better than this, BBC. Didn’t you even take the teeniest peek at the MusicBrainz site before typing in the artists’ names?
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July 8th, 2007 15:53
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July 8th, 2007 16:22
Heehee! That’s a little embarrassing for them, isn’t it!
Nicely picked up.
I always get an evil sort of glee from spotting these sorts of errors. Awful really, because I’m not so perfect myself…
July 9th, 2007 23:22
To defend the BBC for a second… They are just starting a looong road to using the MusicBrainz data. The BBC is a large organization that will take years to start utilizing MusicBrainz fully — so far only a small portion of the BBC uses MusicBrainz.
Its still early in the game…
July 9th, 2007 23:51
Robert, I don’t disagree with you. But an organisation the size of the BBC, part of whose life blood has always been music of one sort or another, ought to be able to spell the names of any popular artists (they’re not exactly unknowns) even before using MusicBrainz.