"Varying names" filter in Artist browsing
In the Browse by Artist view, there could be a filter "Varying names" that limits the artists shown to those potentially being variations of the same name, like "Beatles", "BEATLES", The Beatles", "Beatles, The" and so on.
That would greatly help to spot these misfits and correct them from within Bliss.
The rules for this could start with simply removing "the" and characters like whitespace, comma etc, and then doing a case insensitive comparison.
Fred Larsen
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Fred Larsen
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I agree.
So I think the suggested filter in the Artists view plus manual editing of artist names is a way to have full manual control and still save a lot of work + easily spot artist name problems.
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When using the release-canonical artist name, it would be just on a release by release basis. Maybe an artist released different albums with slightly different names!
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Fred Larsen
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One more comment: I think such an Artist filter could be more useful (and probably faster to implement?) than the albums-and-artists-fusion idea, at least for me.
I withdrew my votes on that idea, as I see how it could solve varying artists nicely, but cannot see the relevance for albums unless it acutally moves an album out of the collection into another location. How should a "fused" album be? Duplicate tracks?
The possibility for editing Artist name for _all_ relevant albums at once in the Artist view is just fantastic and covers a lot of the need. Just need to spot the problems.
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Fred Larsen
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I agree that for identified releases, using the canonical name can be a solution. But should this name then be applied to all other recognized variations of the artist name, or will it just fix the artist name for the given release?
Anyhow I think it is a pretty neat idea to have the "Varying names" or "Artists with similar names" filter in the Artists view, for helping to find potential problems.
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I was referring to your comments on other ideas such as http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/4461522-albums-and-artists-fusion
Agree about artist names being a difficult problem in isolation (we've seen that with the existing canonical artist name rule) but maybe what is easier is, when the release can be identified, the canonical artist *for the release* is used.
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Fred Larsen
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Hi, thanks for the feedback.
I am sure that the number of artists that have variations like this is a minor part of the collection, so getting these filtered out saves a lot of work, avoiding to go manually through all the artists in the whole collection.What kind of rule are you suggesting?
I am not sure that automatic correction of the artist names is safe enough, taking into consideration names like R.E.M. and some bands that intentionally use all uppercase letters in their name, etc. But I may be wrong. -
I can see how this would help; in some ways it might be a short term fix to help you find these artists until a rule can be developed?
