Jan 29 Site Update

TREVORXCORE said:
I'm sure this has been mentioned before but why isn't there something that we can correct our own artist tags?

Also what if the track that scrobbles is the wrong one but there is no suggestion to correct it..
if the yellow banner doesn't appear, on every artist and track page, down the right column, you will find a "suggest an auto-correction" link.

The most blantantly incorrect artists have the yellow bar you mentioned earlier.
Placing that everywhere would make the whole idea of that bar a bit useless, because it would be less visible in the end. Besides, what would be the use of such a bar on the page of, say, The Beatles
The location of the current link is convient enough (in my opinion). On the same spot on every page, located near all the other links to artists/websites/labels and so on.

The yellow bar appears as often on correct as on incorrect artist names, I thought the idea was to follow musicbrainz? This would delegate the responsibility to a very trustworthy collection where anything that's wrong gets updated much faster than here, and more consistently. I've seen moderators here fix the artist name to the incorrect version, and close down the correct one. They were immediately helpful when I pointed this out, but this kind of moderation is much better left to a system that is designed for it, IMO.

I'd like to continue on the kanji/translation/romanization matter a bit...

Shouldn't translated (or romanized or latinized) names be merged with original foreign names, like before, whether the spelling-correction is on or not?

The translation feature still works; names in kanji etc. are latinized like they should be. But I'm not keen on the auto-correction feature, as it results in many unwanted merges, and so I keep it off. Yesterday I noticed that I now have a bunch of new duplicate entries in my library.

For example, with the translation option on, I have two instances of Masashi Hamauzu in my library; one links to Masashi Hamauzu (i.e. Masashi Hamauzu => Masashi Hamauzu), and the other to 浜渦正志 (i.e. Masashi Hamauzu => 浜渦正志). Obviously the latter is how it should be.

Is this going to be fixed? Or can't it be helped (which would be a bit weird as the translations work)?

you can upload your artist images on this page. i'm not sure what you mean by "merge the accounts" though, as Tada is already a shared artist page.

btw, official images aren't allowed on shared pages, so i've already flagged this offending image for removal.

i can't say for sure why your charts would differ from your library (wrt the entry for Stevie Ray Vaughan;Double Trouble), but there are 2 tracks #4 listed on the album: attributed to Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble and Stevie Ray Vaughan;Double Trouble respectively, so you might have scrobbled the latter too.

redirection for Stevie Ray Vaughan;Double Trouble is already in place, pointing to Stevie Ray Vaughan, so re-suggest if necessary. turn on auto-corrections and see if any change occurs in your charts.

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and it's also likely some of your tracks were scrobbled under this album instead.

The Strokes – When It Started (Live in Iceland)
was auto-corrected to The Strokes – When It Started (Live in Icela

this is the only one I have noticed that doesnt make any sense

Jott_Ha said:
Why is the Johnny Cash & Alice in Chains song 'Time of the preacher' automatically corrected in a Johnny Cash - only song? This changes everything!
Why is Armando Trovajoli automatically corrected in Armando Trovaioli (Check out his website www.trovajoli.it and get to know his correct name!)

Please, don't let me watch my library the whole day long for other stupid changes!

you can turn off auto-correction if this is a problem for you. but rather than doing that, you should vote to get this fixed (but make sure that you actually are right before you vote.. (check with musicbrainz))

Something weird happens to my scrobbles again. I can find in my library such strange albums like Shout At The Devil or Mama's Gun by [unknown] artist (I couldn't insert correct markup, so here's the link), although my ID3 tags are correct. I still got auto-corrections off. Today this began to occur to many tracks and it becomes a bit irritating. Thanks in advance for any help.

Jott_Ha said:
... would be a button to 'un-correct' single tracks that have just been played.
That would be a really useful pull-down menu!
This would be nice, instead of having to wait around for other people to vote on something. I have a few things in my library I'm glad have been auto-corrected, but more that have been auto-corrected wrongly. It'd be nice to be able to disregard a change from your profile page, and also have that count as a vote in favour of something being a legitimate track/artist.

legend jonty. thanks a lot

Just another expression of gratitude, Jonty & dunk - this does help out. Thanks.

Jonty said:
dunk and I quickly whipped up something for those asking about all the corrections applied to their library. It's not linked anywhere yet as it's not very pretty - we'll expose this better in the future.

So, if you want to see all the corrected artists in your library:
http://www.last.fm/user/jonty/library/moderatedartists

And all the corrected tracks:
http://www.last.fm/user/jonty/library/moderatedtracks

It lists the corrected version, you can see what it was corrected from by hovering over the green star. Obviously you'll need to replace my username with yours in the URL...

Hope that helps a few of you out.
--jonty
it'll be nice if these could quickly be sorted by:

artist name alphabetically
and
artist name alphabetically - track title alphabetically

at the user level, it'll be another handy resource to quickly check / search for / consolidate misdirections by artist name / track title.