Wrong artist name for The Prodigy

I reported it via the "report a bug" feature (that's now gone missing) in Spotify a long time ago. I've heard absolutely nothing about it; no reply, no fix, nothing. ( Delete or Edit)

I now sendt this mail to premium (I'm a premium subscriber)

"Hi Spotify!
Where do we go to get wrong album- or artist-info fixed?
You have this kind of long thread over at you're support forum:
http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/to...
The Spotify catalog is full of minor errors that messes up our Last.fm-libraries.
This should be so trivial for you to fix and it makes a big deal to us, the users.

The last one I came over, was "The Blow" vs. "Blow".
Not the same artist.

"Blow" is a rock band on ATS-records, found here: www.blow-rock.com
"The Blow" is not a rock band at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blow

How can we, the users, report these problems to get quick results?

Hemo" ( Delete or Edit)

And Jude at Spotify replyes:

"Hi Hemo,

"We are aware that there are metadata errors in our catalog, and we are looking into creating a system to help us manage reports like yours and to fix the errors in a fast and efficient way.

Many errors are fixable, but would then be overwritten by the incorrect information again when we receive a metadata update from the record label. We will fix these issues as soon as possible, along with the problem of same or similarly named bands being joined together.

Best wishes,
Jude"

Hopefully this answer will be explanatory to other users, and preferably Jude and the other good people at Spotify would be a bit more active here in the future. ( Delete or Edit)

Incorrect, Esbjörn. There's lots of bands correctly labelled with "The" in Spotify's album, like "The Chemical Brothers". ( Delete or Edit)

I described it wrong. What I meant was that when it groups songs and albums to artists, it ignores "the". Which makes "The Prodigy" and "Prodigy" the same artists in Spotify's eyes. I guess it might just be random that it decided to link it all to "Prodigy" instead of "The Prodigy". Maybe "Prodigy" were first to enter the system? ( Delete or Edit)

Ah, that makes sense. Perhaps you're correct. Nonetheless, Spotify needs to correct the problem with "The Prodigy" and fix the underlying issue. ( Delete or Edit)

I take it you aren't a software developer :) ( Delete or Edit)

Guess again. OK, maybe more than a minute but its hardly a massive job. They'd need to add a "flagged" column to the database and increment it by one every time a track/artist is flagged. Then all they'd have to do is sort by flagged to see which artists need fixed - simple! Anyway, I didn't say how many minutes :-P ( Delete or Edit)

And speaking about Thorns, I was happy as a clam when I discovered the reunification concert CD of one of the most important black metal bands on Spotify.

From the search results I excitedly clicked the Emperor band name and then proceeded to listen through the entire Live Inferno album. Good times. But every concert has its end: The followup album to Emperor - Live Inferno being put on by Spotify is - and I shit you not - "The Emperor Speaks - The World's Largest Carousel Band Organ".

Roberta and Jonathan, I miss you. ( Delete or Edit)

What I don't understand is that why can't those metadata updates be fixed with somekind of database correction script. I dont' think these updates are even frequent if record labels don't fix them by themselves. ( Delete or Edit)

Yeah, Last.fm have a user-made auto-correction system. You just have to go to the track page, and click that "Suggest a correction" link at the end of the right column. ( Delete or Edit)

Bit the bullet last night and played The Prodigy The fat of the land and although in Spotify they are still displayed as 'Prodigy' the scrobbled tracks read 'The Prodigy'.... yay! Not sure if this is the same for all their tracks... no time to try today but thought I'd mention it. ( Delete or Edit)

That's good news Tom! ( Delete or Edit)

The two "mums" have been split now. ( Delete or Edit)

What do you mean? ( Delete or Edit)

I meant to say that the "This also makes scrobling to last.fm wrong." issue as described in initial post is fixed.
The artist name is still displayed wrong in Spotify though... ( Delete or Edit)

There already are... several in fact. Just because The Prodigy works OK now doesn't mean that the original problem (mixing [artist] with The [artist]) is fixed :) But yes, this thread is no longer needed. ( Delete or Edit)