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I've found it will usually try to match against tracks in their database (sometimes to my chagrin)

I've never tried a completely untagged file before though... so report back when you find out?

I was speaking from experience. I uploaded a song with no information at all. Of course, it ends up saying 'untitled' but played just fine.

Edit - They may have changed this since the first time I tried it. It seems other people are getting errors.

Untagged files are not processed properly by the uploader. You'll get a "General Upload Error". This also seems to happen when there are multibyte characters in the ID3 tags.

I've had that error occur several times, and then the file finally made it through.

It was from a Russian band, tagged with presumably non-ascii characters, but it finally went through, and I really really doubt they have some of the other things I've uploaded.

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