About the New Artist Alias Voting System...

LOL I was about to ask that.
And what about KT Tunstall were the first two choices are the same - at least to my eyes.

this may be a little OT here but it's the first time I've heard of this, just checking the blog entry and saw this:

> Maybe the ability to correct your crappy tags, if it’s accurate enough, and there is demand for it.


This seems... odd. Because I'd swear last.fm already rewrote ("corrected") my tags sometimes.

The case (problem) I have seen is (was) with Afro Celt Sound System.

Since they've put out 3 or 4 cds under that name, one as "The Afro Celts", and zero as Afro Celts, my tags were accordingly "Afro Celt Sound System".

These were all rewritten on the fly by last.fm to "Afro Celts". Wrongly. Annoyingly. I think I ranted about it in the shoutbox.

Until sometime in or after August last year, when they seemed to silently turn off this behaviour: my "Afro Celts" total remained frozen forever at 83 and my "Afro Celt Sound System" count has begun to trickle upwards.

Kind of annoying, for the OCD-stat-geek-pedant in me, for mucking with the overall chart integrity.

So it seems weird to talk about this feature being a possibility given demand, when it's already been going on?


Still, good to hear there may be a future way of consolidating this sort of thing. I have also done almost exactly same thing to myself by scrobbling a load of 70s Herbie Hancock under the technically non-existent artist name of Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters, with a similarly wrongifying effect on my overall chart

stevekeiretsu said:
this may be a little OT here but it's the first time I've heard of this, just checking the blog entry and saw this:

> Maybe the ability to correct your crappy tags, if it’s accurate enough, and there is demand for it.


This seems... odd. Because I'd swear last.fm already rewrote ("corrected") my tags sometimes.

I think that by "correct your crappy tags", they don't actually mean correction on the server side (which the old moderations do, and is one of the main purposes of the fingerprinting) but the possibility of an option to correct the actual tags in your files (acting like the MusicBrainz tagger).

It would be nice if there's a version of this for incorrectly tagged songs. Great idea by the way.

Thank you for this new function so we can once for all can get rid of all this "TAG IT RIGHT!!"-comments.

But when you come to japanese artist, they have often 2 or 3 different artistpages here.

For example, Merry and メリー, but in the "Vote"-list, Merry isn't voteable in メリー-page, and so on. And thats a loooot of japanese bands that often are tagged wrong. Maybe when you schoose "None of the names above" maybe you can link to another page or something? :S

Another one is girugamesh girugämesh and ギルガメッシュ All three is the same band, but you can't vote for the right one in all three pages..

It would be great to merge all this pages with the same artist into one, ones for all!

The new voting sytem is great. I do have a question about the capitalization. The Flitch page is shared by two artists. One of them is spelled FLitCH , the other Flitch - but I can't vote for any option there. Is this a case for the current voting system?

KILLINSTINCT said:
But when you come to japanese artist, they have often 2 or 3 different artistpages here.
I know what you mean. There's separate pages for Takkyu Ishino and 石野卓球, as well as Denki Groove and 電気グルーヴ. I hate having to tag my stuff with Japanese characters just so the streamable songs will scrobble properly.


It would be great to merge all this pages with the same artist into one, ones for all!
I agree. I'd like to see a merge option too.

dear support,

where we can find status of voting for particular artist?
and how can i add a correct artist name to vote list? (for example http://www.last.fm/music/Steve+Roach+and+Robert+Rich has no such vote link at all)

thank you,
maksim

@Fulvian, good question about Pink vs P!nk. At this level, voting is used to identify -distinct- artists, so as long as Pink (the 80s new wave band from Japan) and P!nk are separate artists, you should vote for Pink on the Pink page, and vote for P!nk on the P!nk page.

Separating out albums and tracks is a separate step we'll handle next!

To those who mentioned, we definitely plan to merge international names and make them as eligible for voting... keep an eye out :)

I hate that feature!

Since when can people vote for what's right or wrong?

And why shall I vote between
'Ike & Tina Turner' and 'Tina Turner'
'Pavlov's Dog' and 'Pavlov's Dog 2000'
'Bruce Springsteen' or 'Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band'
'Steve Morse' or 'Steve Morse Band'
and so on

That's always two completely different things.

Meldoicstorm said:
P-Werchowenskij said:
I hate that feature!

Since when can people vote for what's right or wrong?

And why shall I vote between
'Ike & Tina Turner' and 'Tina Turner'
'Pavlov's Dog' and 'Pavlov's Dog 2000'
'Bruce Springsteen' or 'Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band'
'Steve Morse' or 'Steve Morse Band'
and so on

That's always two completely different things.

I see what you mean.
We have voted all through history for what's 'right' and 'wrong'.
Changing morales as we go.
With voting for the Athenian laws in ancient athens is different than now.
With voting the NSDAP in to the Weimar in 1933 and Hitler a year later coming a Fuhrer of Germany.
Voting for 'right' and 'wrong' depends on the person morales rather than the actual status of wether it is actually 'right' or 'wrong'.

Remember GUYZ there is 'no "right" or "wrong" answer' (unless you say anything that is morally wrong in this society.) LOL.

please stop typing.

what about The Beatles?
where can i vote for their correct name?