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    • ludovic said...
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    • 30 Aug 2008, 06:57

    How does last.fm figures out Albums for Artist

    http://www.last.fm/music/Unnuaq+Band/+albums says Last.fm does not know ant album for the Unnuaq Band. I'm listening to that band and their unique Album (at least I belive it's unique). I've only been listenin for the last few days. Are the album generated on a weekly basis, monthly basis, or is it something that needs to be added manually by a staff member ?

  • Manually, but not by the staff but by a label. If you mean you also want to be able to hear them on last.fm.
    Outside of that, I'm not sure. In some cases, you can find artist data that looks generated. On the other hand, Delain's demo still isn't here at all while plenty of people have heard it.

    In other words, I don't know, let's hope for a staff/mod that will kindly tell us how it works:).

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    • DFA1979 said...
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    • 30 Aug 2008, 11:03
    Album data is added in two ways, either by an artist/label account connected to that artist, or by an automated import system which grabs album info from various sources (musicbrainz is the main source, but I believe there are a few others).

  • DFA1979 said:
    Album data is added in two ways, either by an artist/label account connected to that artist, or by an automated import system which grabs album info from various sources (musicbrainz is the main source, but I believe there are a few others).
    Well I'm pretty sure Delain's ep Amenity is an unknown album, but musicbrainz has it. How do you explain that?

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    • DFA1979 said...
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    • 30 Aug 2008, 11:14
    It hasn't been imported yet. I don't really know anything more than what my post above says, so I couldn't pin down why it hasn't been imported, but Last.fm does use musicbrainz info and staff members have said in the past that if you add an album over on musicbrainz it should (at some point) appear here, too. I don't know anything about how often imports happen or how much of the musicbrainz info is grabbed in each import (it might not be the full database, or it might be, I've no idea) so I can't tell you much on t hat.

  • I see.
    I just realised my previous post was sort of offensive, my bad.

    Eitherway, does this mean the best way to get the albums on is making a musicbrainz entry?

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    • DFA1979 said...
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    • 30 Aug 2008, 11:26
    Not taken offensively :)

    Yeah, as far as I'm aware that's the best way to go about it (unless you know the artist or something, in which case you could just shout at them or poke them with a stick until they go and add it manually).

  • a) Is it possible for the artist to add the album but not the streamable songs (just song titles)?

    b) I know for some albums being recently added to MusicBrainz. Any ideas how long it might take to get them into last.fm?

  • keinikiki said:
    a) Is it possible for the artist to add the album but not the streamable songs (just song titles)?
    DFA1979 said:
    Album data is added in two ways, either by an artist/label account connected to that artist, or by an automated import system which grabs album info from various sources (musicbrainz is the main source, but I believe there are a few others).
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    keinikiki said:
    b) I know for some albums being recently added to MusicBrainz. Any ideas how long it might take to get them into last.fm?
    DFA1979 said:
    It hasn't been imported yet. I don't really know anything more than what my post above says, so I couldn't pin down why it hasn't been imported, but Last.fm does use musicbrainz info and staff members have said in the past that if you add an album over on musicbrainz it should (at some point) appear here, too. I don't know anything about how often imports happen or how much of the musicbrainz info is grabbed in each import (it might not be the full database, or it might be, I've no idea) so I can't tell you much on t hat.

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  • namnatulco said:
    keinikiki said:
    a) Is it possible for the artist to add the album but not the streamable songs (just song titles)?
    DFA1979 said:
    Album data is added in two ways, either by an artist/label account connected to that artist, or by an automated import system which grabs album info from various sources (musicbrainz is the main source, but I believe there are a few others).

    This still does not explain if artists themselves can or can not add albums only with song titels (and not streamable songs). Is it possible or not?

    And I read that DFA1979 doesn't have the information about inporting data from MusicBrainz, I just hoped that someone else that does would come around :)

  • keinikiki said:
    namnatulco said:
    keinikiki said:
    a) Is it possible for the artist to add the album but not the streamable songs (just song titles)?
    DFA1979 said:
    Album data is added in two ways, either by an artist/label account connected to that artist, or by an automated import system which grabs album info from various sources (musicbrainz is the main source, but I believe there are a few others).

    This still does not explain if artists themselves can or can not add albums only with song titels (and not streamable songs). Is it possible or not?

    And I read that DFA1979 doesn't have the information about inporting data from MusicBrainz, I just hoped that someone else that does would come around :)

    I figured Album data in his post refered to the song titles/times/other album information you meant.

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