Top 5 KPOP Girl Group Song Releases of Summer 2012 so far…

Hooray the summer is here and that means that there have already been a number of new KPOP releases recently. Here are our top 5 KPOP tunes by girl groups / bands, of the summer so far:

5) SISTAR (씨스타) – Loving U

A nice and cute video which complements the song very nicely. The song itself is more of a stereotypical bubblegum pop tune which in a few months time will be almost forgotten however for the moment its a nice sweet track that just makes it onto our top 5.

4) After School(애프터스쿨) – Flashback

After School caused a little shock with this slightly raunchy and grownup video which shows that they are really trying to move away from there younger pop past and into a more adult and professional future. The song is good and our number 4.

3) JUNIEL (주니엘) – Illa Illa (일라 일라)

A really sweet and natural tune from the 18 year old KPOP star of the future, that shows that there is growing talent coming out of Korea these day that doesn’t require gimmicks. We admit she isn’t a group but there are so few solo artists we felt it unfair to overlook her.

2) F (X) (에프엑스) – Electric Shock

F (X) (in our opinion) fall just short of the number one stop and its mainly due the bland and slightly boring video, the song is great however it let down by the video.

1) Wonder Girls – Like this

Well here it is the top song of the summer so far, Wonder Girls have scored with this triple home run release. Interesting Video, Dance Routine and Song, but the question is can any other girl group do any better this summer.

Honorable Mentions: Chi Chi – Love is Energy, APink – Hush, Girls Generation TTS – Twinkle, IU – End of the Day and G.NA – 2Hot. Some where more Spring time releases and others just missed out.

Thank you for your time today and if you feel there is a KPOP tune that we’ve missed please feel free to let us know. The Top Boy Band releases of the Summer so far is coming very soon.

Modern Seoul Magazine

Ineligible song issues with iTunes Match.

I have several albums of mp3′s that iTunes Match claim are ineligible albums for iTunes Match that I have no idea why they have been marked as such. They are CD’s that I have ripped, I own the CD, and I know they are are available in the iTunes Store.

I also noticed that iTunes suddenly had two of the songs listed with the incorrect times on them. Instead of being 4 or 5 minutes in length, they were now listed as being 29 or 30 minutes long! I thought maybe this was just an error, so I clicked the play button in iTunes. They actually played fine for the length of the actual tune but then iTunes kept playing, in silence, for the rest of the 30 minutes! I dragged the song out of iTunes and opened the mp3 in several other programs, QuickTimes, SoundStudio and Audacity. No other program had issues with the length. So I figured that possibly these mp3′s were corrupt in some way or another.

SOLUTION
I went back into iTunes, went into my preferences, and made sure that my import settings were set for AAC. I then  went back into the iTunes library, selected several of the songs that were ineligible, and created an AAC version of the song. After iTunes had updated my iTunes Match results these songs became eligible! They were now marked as being Matched! I went through and did all the other songs in this album and they are now all Matched. If you take a look at the screenshot from below you can see where some of the files are mp3′s still and are marked ineligible, whereas other songs have been converted into aac’s and are now Matched. You can also see that after going through this process of converting the files you will need to wait for iTunes to re-post the iTunes Match results – or you can force iTunes to update by going to the store menu and selecting update iTunes Match. After getting the results you want… Matched files… then you will of course want to go through and delete the bad files. If you want to make sure to get the best file possible after getting your tunes Matched in the Cloud then you will want to follow my previous post where I talked about how to get iTune Match’s better file.