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  1. ListenBrainz
  2. LB-1592

Non-latin artist/tracks, accents and variations are not resolved properly on Spotify

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      I have tried to export the following playlist:

      https://listenbrainz.org/playlist/933fb057-8c62-405a-a87e-9f207b889aa7/

      It may be found here:

      https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7qBy7gqrLRRgPudEWNK4tN

      Note it's missing 56 tracks. Upon further inspection, I have seen that any artist or track which was written in Japanese on the Listenbrainz webpage has not been exported properly. That points to a problem on the current mapping between lb items and spotify, although note the tracks/artist exist on Spotify (with english names most times).

      Also, the MB database does include in fact such tracks/artists with aliases matching Spotify:

      https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c5ae5832-cbbf-44d0-8b9c-36e67360c5b1/aliases

      In ListenBrainz it's named Wagakki Band and in Spotify it's WagakkiBand, but such variation is already on MusicBrainz, so I would expect to match it.
      In particular, for this track:

      https://musicbrainz.org/recording/b0500d1e-de41-4f95-a0c6-792040076f0d

      There are multiple matches on Spotify:

      https://open.spotify.com/track/2JIiUmPoIEolW2PAXzuLOl

       

      So I see 2 problems:

      • Non-latin chars in title/album/artist are not properly matched against Spotify, even if there is a perfect match.
      • Aliases (usually English or variations) are not properly used when matching against Spotify.

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          [LB-1592] Non-latin artist/tracks, accents and variations are not resolved properly on Spotify

          Robert Kaye added a comment -

          This playlist is a great example of how poorly the playlist export works currently:

          https://listenbrainz.org/playlist/03e07a72-832b-4a60-bd67-4995e6ef6a40/

          Robert Kaye added a comment - This playlist is a great example of how poorly the playlist export works currently: https://listenbrainz.org/playlist/03e07a72-832b-4a60-bd67-4995e6ef6a40/

          Isabelxxx added a comment -

          Any advance with this one? Even if we have the feature, exporting is currently unusable as is, since some tracks are always lost.

          Isabelxxx added a comment - Any advance with this one? Even if we have the feature, exporting is currently unusable as is, since some tracks are always lost.

          regorxxx@protonmail.com added a comment -

          Also see this for problems with title variations:
          https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server/pull/2905#issuecomment-2195047736

           

          monkey.do  just to notify you about the current problems of the fuzzy library.

           

          regorxxx@protonmail.com added a comment - Also see this for problems with title variations: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server/pull/2905#issuecomment-2195047736   monkey.do   just to notify you about the current problems of the fuzzy library.  

          regorxxx@protonmail.com added a comment -

          As seen here:
          https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server/pull/2905#issuecomment-2195060145

          The fuzzy library does not support accents and that alone introduces a lot of matching errors.

          regorxxx@protonmail.com added a comment - As seen here: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server/pull/2905#issuecomment-2195060145 The fuzzy library does not support accents and that alone introduces a lot of matching errors.

            monkey.do Nicolas Pelletier
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