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> If there's both a punk rock band and a rapper with name "Foo" it probably doesn't make sense to mix them. Damn right. And yet Last.fm does. An example: Felt.
by beaumartinez 16y ago
> If there's both a punk rock band and a rapper with name "Foo" it probably doesn't make sense to mix them.
Damn right. And yet Last.fm does. An example: Felt. "There are three artists with the name Felt"[1]. I'm wondering if using MusicBrainz or another service they could manage to differentiate them.
[1] http://www.last.fm/music/Felt http://www.last.fm/music/Felt
- ffumarola 16y agoI could see some sort of "disambiguation" feature like on wikipedia. So when I click on your link above, it could give me links to Felt (rock), Felt (rap), and Felt (classic). I made up the genres, but the point remains. Then clicking on Felt (rock) takes me to last.fm/music/Felt(rock).
- dsingleton 16y agoThat's the easy bit :P Copy wikipedia, disambiguate by genre and/or country . It gets harder when someone scrobbles a track by "Felt", to which artist do you attribute it? There's a whole host of problems like that to solve too.
- unicornporn 16y agoYes, I've been scrobbling using audioscrobbler/last.fm since 2004 and this is quite bad for the experience. I've been listening quite a lot to a german dnb act called Panacea ( http://www.last.fm/music/Panacea http://www.last.fm/music/Panacea ) the latest month. In my listening stats a picture of an american base hip-hop group shows up. Take a look at how Discogs (one of the best services I know) separates their artists with similar names ( http://www.discogs.com/artist/Panacea http://www.discogs.com/artist/Panacea , http://www.discogs.com/artist/Panacea+%282%29 http://www.discogs.com/artist/Panacea+%282%29 ).