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There are two artists with the same name. How do I know which one is which?
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Currently, there's no way to differentiate between two artists with the same name; artist disambiguation is a problem we hope to deal with in the future. In the meantime, the two artists will have to share the same artist page.
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Inappropriate?Currently, there's no way to differentiate between two artists with the same name; artist disambiguation is a problem we hope to deal with in the future. In the meantime, the two artists will have to share the same artist page.
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Inappropriate?*mumble* ... country based ... *think*
I can't remember any conflicts within the Netherlands, US or UK regarding band/singer names which were the same. Actually.. from a soap-opera perspective it would be great to watch and follow .. if there were, links, info? :)
I would differentiate between bands with the same name by country code (rfc 3066 might work?)
But this brings up a second question.. genre, a rfc 3066-genre ;) How to differentiate between genre on songkick.. and, if it isn't possible, how could that be made possible without destroying any single bit of songkick as it now is?
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Inappropriate?Big problem on Last.fm too... I really hope that this can be differentiated by country or some other criteria some day.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?There are really only two ways to fix this that i've seen, either you redirect through use of a clarification page such as wikipedia, or you have all information for variants organised on one page. neither is perfect but then hey, language is naturally ambiguous.
Alternatively If you go down the road of automatically trying to work out what people mean based on context, then you open up a whole other level of complexity, as google have done by trying to work out what search terms mean.
I’m happy
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but at the end of the day Wikipedia still has two separate articles for each, even if you go through a disambiguation page. Ideally, bands should be able to share a name while having a unique identity on the back-end that users on the front-end can differentiate between by other characteristics (Country of origin, Profile Picture, Genre, Years Active etc) -
Inappropriate?What's wrong with using Musicbrainz for this - they already know the difference between "Galaxie 500 (US indie rock/slowcore band)" and "Galaxie 500 (formed in 2000s in Quebec - not the famous 'slow-core' group)" and each already has a unique ID.
I’m puzzled
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excellent example! :)
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Inappropriate?www.discogs.com uses a numbering system, so the first artist uses the standard name, then each subsequent artist with the same name adds (2), (3) etc. This seems to work quite well, although there are some names that have in excess of 20 artists using them!1 Comment Add a comment
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The problem with that method is that you have to click through to find which (for example) Luna (out of the 28 of them) you want; wheras a description (like musicbrainz uses) makes it clear straight away that I want "Luna (Dean Wareham et al)"
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the suggestions folks - great help :)
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Inappropriate?Discography and a picture would do the job I think...
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Inappropriate?Is there are a way for the word 'The' to be recognised seperately? For example, 'The Ambience' and 'Ambience'. I imagine that probably would confuse the whole system, but thought i'd check anyway....although it's quite cool that it looks like i've toured America ;)
I’m the word the.
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