2012-01-06, 09:21
First of all, thanks a ton for looking into this. Agree that music is last missing piece, which is uncovered. Would be fantastic if you can help to close this gap.
You are bringing up a complex case. Mine is easier. Looking up P!nk gives me the right match in MB, but with exactly the same speeling results in the wrong one in HP:
http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=P%21nk&type=artist
Thanks a ton!!! Let me know if I can help with testing or otherwise.
SleepyP Wrote:Even without MusicBrainz tags, the existing method for searching and then handling the results leaves a bit to be desired. I'll need to see how the data is handled, but I think it should be possible to take a given Artist Name, search that against MusicBrainz to get results, and then semi-intelligently look at those results. If the search results are in an array, I think we should search that array for a string match against the Artist Name. This shouldn't be necessary, but testing against a large dataset has shown that the search facilities are a bit less than awesome sometimes.
You are bringing up a complex case. Mine is easier. Looking up P!nk gives me the right match in MB, but with exactly the same speeling results in the wrong one in HP:
http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=P%21nk&type=artist
SleepyP Wrote:I will need to look at the code to see how understandable it is, but doing a narrow-case modification like this to an existing application, especially a scripty one, shouldn't be TOO terribly hard I hope. If I can, I'd like to fork it, get this feature working, and then contribute it back to the master branch.
Thanks a ton!!! Let me know if I can help with testing or otherwise.