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 ?

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).

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.

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).

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).----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

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.