[mattb]

Using SVN 17300, the Discogs music scraper fails to find artist/album information for any artists whose name begins with "the". This is apparently a limitation or stupidity in the Discogs search engine. For example, when searching for the album "Rubber Factory" by "The Black Keys", the Discogs scraper will query this search URL:

http://www.discogs.com/advanced_search?a...h+Releases

This returns no results. If the "The" is stripped out or placed at the end, like so:

http://www.discogs.com/advanced_search?a...h+Releases

or

http://www.discogs.com/advanced_search?a...h+Releases

Everything works fine. I'm not sure whether this should be considered a bug of our scraper or if Discogs search engine is broken.

[mkortstiege]

Just did some quick tests on this issue but i am pretty sure its due to the discogs search engine.
Maybe you should contact them to ask if tokens will be supported at any time, otherwise we might want to strip them before searching.