Boomplay now uses opaque, non-numeric identifiers in album URLs. MusicBrainz currently rejects these URLs because its Boomplay URL validation expects a numeric ID.

Example new URL:

https://www.boomplay.com/albums/EQUABbK_Gy8KOODzT4ow4hGX

MusicBrainz currently reports:

This URL is not allowed for the selected link type, or is incorrectly formatted.

The corresponding legacy URL is:

https://www.boomplay.com/albums/134155234

Boomplay redirects that numeric URL to the new opaque URL above. This means existing MusicBrainz relationships use an obsolete URL format and are redirected by Boomplay.

A tracked URL may look like:

https://www.boomplay.com/albums/EQUABbK_Gy8KOODzT4ow4hGX?srModel=openapi_featurefm&ffm=FFM_04511e3b346d53f7e395d55c79e0d5b5

Expected normalized URL:

https://www.boomplay.com/albums/EQUABbK_Gy8KOODzT4ow4hGX

MusicBrainz should:

• Accept Boomplay album identifiers in the new format.
• Remove tracking query parameters.
• Possibly, continue accepting legacy numeric URLs for backward compatibility.

Possibly, add a script that will normalise all existing URLs to the new format.