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>even though you already have everything on file elsewhere already?

Sounds like an opportunity to automate much of that...

Yeah, no doubt. Everything can be automated. And I'm sure some dirty hack was cobbled together to work around the situation rather than turning some poor human into a zombie with both RSI and PTSD. I'd hope.

But let's not turn the tables that way. My point is that "opportunity" should have been addressed _before_ Steve Jobs decided to fly in all those industry bigwigs to do his sales pitch. I mean, who was selling who here exactly? Different times I guess...

I really don't have a problem with putting the onus on the owner to make sure their information is correct, let them prioritize and so on.

It's not ideal, but in 2003 the idea that everything has an API was still very pie in the sky for A LOT of things.

That's fair, but there didn't even need to be an API. Just some feature to import WAV files and/or track listings would have gone a long way.

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