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I have no cyrillic or other artist names unless musicbrainz forces them on me which is why I tend to avoid it in these cases. I would prefer not to make this another discussion about tags but keep it strictly on the scraper level.
Again, problem: Search for "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky" yields no results when refreshing artist information.
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I think if you look at your debug log after scraping, you should see just what the search was and what was returned. What I see on MB is that the primary name in their database is typically the style that is most commonly used for the artist. Sometimes it is rather the alias. I rarely get results from any of the other sites so don't really investigate what those sites provide. But mostly I scrape/assign MBIDs outside of Kodi so I have control over what gets into the Kodi database. I haven't really investigated, but it does seem like if you query MB with an alias (as mb has it) via the API the results returned aren't as good as if you did a search on the MB site.
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