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Topic: Music Titles and Data Base - why use underscores

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I have a crazy question about how people name music. When downloading music and vids off of a variety of places I have notices people name things in different formats. Myself, I use sentence case lettering and it gets pretty annoying to have to rename most downloads to keep a "clean" data base. The ones that make it harder to fix are the ones that use underscores between all words ie - Mary_J_Bliege_-_Name of Song. My questions really is - is there a purpose to use the underscores? Like I said, just a crazy question. Thanks.
 

Posted Wed 18 Aug 10 @ 10:24 pm
i have no clue why they use _ in songtitles but i know a sweet program that removes them whit one click and that is id3 tagit.
 

 

Thanks for the responses. The other night I downloaded a bunch from 8th Wonder and they had underscores. I sure hope they are legal. I have to be honest, when I first started out I was getting music where ever I could. Now I am slowly remaking my data base to all legal stuff. In the past year I have probably "exchanged 10k songs and hopfully this year I will be totally clean. I am sure I am not the only DJ that has done this. Also, the legal stuff is almost always better quality.
 



yes.... dont get me wrong ;) many legal sites use underscores too :)

Its more safe for web browsers and download links .. .
 

Now the good news...:
Virtual dj filter/ignore the underscores in search, no need to remember if your files have underscores or not.
Makes search easier. Try it !
 

As previous guys said:
The underscores have used forever in the internet instead of a space, because URLS can't hve spaces in them.
You'll find underscore instead of spaces not only in mp3's but in jpg's, zip's and every other file you download from the net.
 

Short answer: because people are too dumb to use %20

;)
 

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