Last.fm's get_bio_summary() doesn't format nicely when there are multiple bands named the same about blottertrax HOT 7 CLOSED

Regular Last.FM user here. Last.FM does not differentiate between multiple bands of the same name whatsoever. For instance, when I scrobble BRATS, a japanese rock band, the scrobble is tagged as danish, because there used to be another band called Brats. Nothing I can do about it.

I believe the only way to format the summary will be to write code to detect whether there are multiple bands based on the summary text, then
get the full bio instead of the summary, and either print the full bio or create a summary from your own code

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Not noticing an easy way in LastFM to detect another artist of the same name and have found numerous other people complaining about this drawback of LastFM..

I was even looking at the possibility of getting the track based on artist name + song name and working back to the artist from there but even then the "artist" ends up being the merged page that could discuss multiple artists.

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Using one of the above posts as a test I was able to hit the lastfm api and get the follow:

{ "track": { "name": "Look the Other Way", "mbid": "4f3893ba-8065-4b64-8a74-1a30d511f18f", "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/The+Busy+Signals/_/Look+the+Other+Way", "duration": "107000", "streamable": { "#text": "0", "fulltrack": "0" }, "listeners": "1299", "playcount": "5303", "artist": { "name": "The Busy Signals", "mbid": "93f2ceaa-4a70-4dbb-b0b8-617a50611353", "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/The+Busy+Signals" }, "album": { "artist": "The Busy Signals", "title": "the Busy Signals", "mbid": "c4056e7d-5d7f-4d83-9303-19fa3d02081f", "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/The+Busy+Signals/the+Busy+Signals", "image": [ { "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/34s/16bb93073b5a40ad84ea7552d5377181.png", "size": "small" }, { "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/16bb93073b5a40ad84ea7552d5377181.png", "size": "medium" }, { "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/16bb93073b5a40ad84ea7552d5377181.png", "size": "large" }, { "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/16bb93073b5a40ad84ea7552d5377181.png", "size": "extralarge" } ], "@attr": { "position": "2" } }, "toptags": { "tag": [] } } }

Might want to JSON pretty print ^

Long story short, the artist link back is still the merged artist but we can get the album information.. Might be worth a discussion with the mod team about coming up with rules based on an album playcount rather than total artist scrobbles.

It also requires more API requests to retrieve as we first have to get the track info then the album from the information returned.

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Definitely disappointing to hear as that is most definitely not a trivial task!

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Maybe we can look into using Discogs?

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Will do some investigation on this tonight, see this as blocking beta release

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Maybe we can look into using Discogs?

Checked out the api a little bit, looks doable

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