Sunday, July 10, 2011

More not enough information

How nice! An email from Amazon.co.uk especially for me!
Since you like classical music, we thought you might be interested in the free EMI Classics MP3 sampler we have available until the end of July.
Hey wow, I do like classical music! But of course I live in Ireland so I can't follow through on this like by actually paying to download some of it from Amazon. This post isn't about geographical restrictions, though. This is about:
Oh noes! The track listing does not provide the names of the composers!
This is indeed very shoddy, but unfortunately par for the course for sites that don't specialise in classical. Three outraged Amazon customers have dragged the sampler's average rating down to 2 stars, which is quite impressive for a freebie featuring good musicians in critically well-received performances.
This is absolutely unprofessional and absolutely useless. Who is the target audience? Those who know nothing about music? This will not help them.
says reviewer Tatiana Rybina.
So our reviewers helpfully provide full composer details. Oh, no, wait, they don't. "This will not help them" cuts both ways, I suppose.
Beethoven. Handel. JS Bach. Beethoven. Schumann. Brahms. Chopin. Grieg.
How hard was that?

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