reassigning wrong streams : mistagged tracks/albums/artists

oops... double clicked the post button by mistake. sorry.

thanks a lot, but yes, by the look of things, unfortunately this issue cannot be fixed at the moment...

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galeote said:
The first 2 albums you provided had (Album Version) or similar suffixes appended to the titles, which is what the tool can clean automatically (also LP Version, Single Version, etc.) at the moment.

So could you clean up Grande Rock, please?

P!nk's Misunnderstood album has a lot of the wrong tracks on there


Missundaztood

The actual album with the right songs on is listed under Pink

Missundaztood

Fall Out Boy - My People is actually by The Presets

Badly uploaded album: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Presets/Apocalypso+(International)

Same on the UK version: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Presets/Apocalypso+(UK+Version)

And of course the single: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Presets/My+People+(International)

DiamondDave suggested this as an appropriate place to mention that Anchorage by Michelle Shocked is silent when previewed in the Flash player and/or streamed to the client. This has been noted by other listeners too (see the shout box on the track's page).

Dino

whoa... hold yer horses, guys! this thread is supposed to be for tracks with mistagged track title/album/artist info.

@ girl_from_oz and Babs_05: for cases where a different version of the correct track is streamed, this is not a bug but a known issue they will resolve eventually with the aid of fingerprinting.

as for suspected corrupted uploads (@truffaldino), it may be wiser to begin a fresh thread if one isn't available. babs, for the 30-sec preview thing, maybe the artist label should be notified via the staff.

just saying, guys... don't shoot me, alright? ;)

The song on last.fm labeled Caravan Of Love by The Housemartins is in fact All The Way From America by Joan Armatrading

galeote said:
The first 2 albums you provided had (Album Version) or similar suffixes appended to the titles, which is what the tool can clean automatically (also LP Version, Single Version, etc.) at the moment..

Is this why some tracks now have () after the title
e.g.
Valentine - Ocean Full Of Tears ()

I assume the brackets once contained words like "album version".

i believe the introduction of the artist name in these cases is a good thing (it's only been recently introduced, afaik). it's particularly helpful in cases like compilation albums and soundtracks, to sidestep the 'various artists' issue and to disambiguate the tracks between albums. the new links with the album title included will still point to the former /artist/_/tracktitle/ links for now, but in time, i believe it will pave the way for different album versions of the same track title to be properly differentiated just by referring to their urls. with the fingerprinting magic also thrown in, of course.

i hear you. artist labels can screw up too sometimes, and it's a good thing only a relatively few users have scrobbled through that particular mistag. (though mistagging cases on the whole are widespread, unfortunately.) what you can do meanwhile is to red-flag that wrong artist page by posting a correction/redirect wiki on the page (example) to both reroute users to the proper artist page if/where the stream is available and to advise them to correct their own itunes library tags. once we have the new 'keep stats clean' label approved (everyone, please vote!) that can be added to the artist image space too.

this much we can do for now to stem the flow. the actual fixing part may take awhile because it's a monumental undertaking that they want to get right the first time, i would think. (we've all seen how introducing something before it's ready can have dire consequences, so that's unlikely to repeat itself anytime soon.) we'll just have to be patient and wait for the yet-to-be-introduced track fingerprinting and moderation systems to do the rest and sort out this mess, i guess.

fmera said:
i hear you. artist labels can screw up too sometimes, and it's a good thing only a relatively few users have scrobbled through that particular mistag. (though mistagging cases on the whole are widespread, unfortunately.) what you can do meanwhile is to red-flag that wrong artist page by posting a correction/redirect wiki on the page (example) to both reroute users to the proper artist page if/where the stream is available and to advise them to correct their own itunes library tags. once we have the new 'keep stats clean' label approved (everyone, please vote!) that can be added to the artist image space too.

this much we can do for now to stem the flow. the actual fixing part may take awhile because it's a monumental undertaking that they want to get right the first time, i would think. (we've all seen how introducing something before it's ready can have dire consequences, so that's unlikely to repeat itself anytime soon.) we'll just have to be patient and wait for the yet-to-be-introduced track fingerprinting and moderation systems to do the rest and sort out this mess, i guess.

I think that the picture / label thing has always been a really good idea -- but it seems like a somewhat moot point when the mistake has been made and is part of the radio (which can play without the user even trying)....And it's even more difficult if it's a good track that you don't want to ban on radio!

The whole thing is just kind of a mess, I guess. I reckon that no matter what kind of system is implemented, there will continue to be widespread mistagging. Which is really unfortunate, because I'm anal and see this as a major eyesore!