This is not about music, per se, but about music managers.

I run Banshee on Ubuntu.  It's great and for the most part is pretty easy to use.  I love the playlist features, and the ability to create filters for my music (like having a playlist of everything minus my holiday music) and the queuing features.

I don't like the fact that it doesn't exactily have a good way to edit my tags or sync them to a database (CDDB or something).

I've actually tried to fix things with MusicBrainz Picard.  It worked a little bit.  I guess I'll need to work with EasyTag or something to try to get things set.

Anyway, the whole reason for this grump-fest is because I've been trying to get my music to show up properly on my Walkman.  I've been working through most of my music, tried to clean things up, and am still having issues with most of it showing up under "UNKNOWN".  Exactly like that, all caps and all.

It's infuriating.  I even tried iTunes *shudder* on Windows.  Foobar2000 is awesome on Windows, but it doesn't do anything related to tags.  It's all folder-based, which is fine, but my idiot music player goes by tags.

This whole thing is so infuriating.  I'm about ready to go buy a Sansa Clip+.  It might actually work.

Does anyone have a solution?  Serously.  I don't know why, but this kind of thing really bothers me.

I've been following all of the concerns surrounding the Ubuntu and Banshee profit-sharing "kerfuffle", as Greg puts it here.  Craig Maloney (aka snap-l) responds here.  Mark Shuttleworth responds to everyone here.  Also, I can't forget about Jono's post about it as well. So, I guess this is my response: I think the whole thing is embarrassing.  Canonical shouldn't have suggested what they did, nor should they have backpedaled in the manner they did. Banshee is an awesome application.  I use it every day to manage and listen to my music and download new tracks from Amazon (mostly free individual tracks and album samplers).  I have never used the Ubuntu Music Store, but I think it's a great idea.  (Note: I get most of my new music from actual CDs or through Jamendo or other CC-music websites.) Now, I've been a part of the Ubuntu community since about 2006 (yes, I'm old) and seeing something like this pains me.  It makes me feel like I should be embarrassed to use Ubuntu and Banshee.  The Amazon store should never have been an issue; Canonical should never have offered to mess with it, instead offering their own store with a choice of stores (even enabling both!) at the startup of Banshee. I understand that Canonical needs to make money.  All businesses need to make money.  If UbuntuOne was available for Windows and was a comparable price to Dropbox, I would probably be using UbuntuOne instead of Dropbox.  Selling cloud services is a great idea for Canonical.  Same with selling merchandise through their store, and CDs with Ubuntu on them.  Heck, I've bought stuff from them. I guess my question is, couldn't Canonical come up with a better way to deal with this profit-sharing or whatever?  What about offering 85/15 (85% to Gnome, 15% to Canonical)?  Heck, even 50/50 would have been more fair.  25/75 for doing no work whatsoever doesn't seem kosher.