We should also watch for artists with the same name. For instance I know of two Body Electrics. And we should be aware of evolution in bands like Fleetwood Mac. Who started out as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, but became known as Fleetwood Mac, but still played blues. Then evolved into Fleetwood Mac playing American FM Radio soft rock. To me they are two different bands.
James Mario García H. wrote: > I think the most important issue with artists is trying to catalogue them with > various keywords instead of just one: ie. Depending on the user > selected language > if that is the case. > > Going further, there should be a voting alike system so that users say whether > an artist name is duplicated or misspelled -then redirecting to the artist > main > page or name- in the best tradition of Wikipedia disambiguation. > > This is one of the most problematic bugs in last.fm seen over time: > Malón, malon, malón, Malon were four different artists, for example. > > If artist names aren't "rigid" headers but instead a collection of > internationalized > tags (with variable capitalization), there is a good possibility for > solving such an > earlier mess as far as I can see right now. > > iLiKETRAiNS is one of such "capital" considerations if somebody wants to jump > over some kind of auto-capitalization feature. > > I hope I am not repeating somebody else. > Best Regards. > > 2009/4/30 Carsten Nørgaard <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> Libre.fm should auto-correct artist names. I believe this is >> important to get running at an early point, as it seems like >> it would be a mess implementing much later, like last.fm did. >> >> Guidelines surely exist for tagging tracks optimally, but >> Average Joe cares more about the music than archival and >> librarianship, and so it makes sense to have a pessimistic >> approach to this and guide users along the way, IMHO :) >> >> Thank you. >> > _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
