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Oranges and Lemons are one entity #108

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colons opened this issue May 10, 2014 · 0 comments
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Oranges and Lemons are one entity #108

colons opened this issue May 10, 2014 · 0 comments

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colons commented May 10, 2014

https://nkd.su/artist/Oranges/ https://nkd.su/artist/Lemons/

This specific symptom is trivially solvable with a special case, but that's missing the point. This is indicative of a much broader metadata issue. We should not be a canonical source of metadata at all. MusicBrainz has solved that problem far better than we ever could. We should instead tie tracks in our library to MusicBrainz releases. That would solve the Oranges/Lemons confusion as well as hugely improve search, let people see track titles in actual Japanese if they wanted to and ease @theshillito's unending quest for royalty information.

I have no idea how to properly approach doing this. Trusting some search algorithm seems super dangerous. Gamifying metadata issue reporting, while fun, would be both difficult and likely to lead to weirdness.

Because of #99, we do already have an unreliable function for tying tracks to MusicBrainz releases. Perhaps that would be a good place to start.

Also, #78.

@colons colons changed the title Oranges and Lemons are one band Oranges and Lemons are one entity May 10, 2014
colons added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 8, 2015
I disagree with this change, but it sorts #108 for Fear, and Loathing in
Las Vegas and reflects the reality of the state of the library.
@colons colons closed this as completed in 342591a Jun 11, 2020
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