Bands with same name
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Topic: Bands with same name
Posted By: Vehemency
Subject: Bands with same name
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2010 at 4:51am
I know this has been discussed somewhere before (can't locate a thread right now) and I remember reading about this regarding to NWoBHM, but I'm still wondering. From user's point of view, it's time consuming to check every band to find what one is looking for. It's not a big problem yet because we don't have many bands in the database, but in the future we can have more than 5 bands with the same name - in fact, Metal Archives finds 13 bands with the name Darkness. Should we edit these band names and add country tags like (USA) and (Swe), like in Metal Archives? Or maybe in the future the search option would show the country (and perhaps genre?) too? |
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Posted By: Ulfednar
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2010 at 4:59am
| The "BAND ( Country )" style feels so natural, even my music collection is organised the same way. Adding the genre would quite probably cause problems with the listings, when you'll be having entries such as "Some Band With A Huge Goddamn Name For Some Reason (Swe) (Progressive death metal/Ambient/Black Metal/Electropop". |
Posted By: Vehemency
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2010 at 5:10am
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Yep you are right that the genre thing would cause problems like that. Just to ensure, I meant that the search would show the genre too, but the genre wouldn't be added to the band name itself. But yes, it would still make the search messier especially with bands that are in multiple genres. I think that I'm in favour of this style: "Darkness (UK)". If there are multiple bands from even the same country, then "Darkness (UK, 1)", "Darkness (UK, 2)" and something like that, perhaps? |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 6:30am
Bump and good thinking mates. This will surely cause problems in the future if we don�t start dealing with it soon.------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Vehemency
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 7:14am
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Vehemency wrote:Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 10:16am
| I don't really think there are any viable alternatives to the format suggested by Tommi. Though a rare occurrence, I am sure we will come across bands with the same name and from the same country, and this is the most practical way of labeling them (with multi-genre labeling, using the subgenre may prove awkward). We could arrange them in chronological order, with # 1 being the oldest, up to the most recent. |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2010 at 4:36pm
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Is there a way of doing it automatically, such that the system automatically inserts the country code after the band name whenever there are two or more artists of the same name in the database?
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Posted By: graphix
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2010 at 6:37pm
I developed a new/improved artist search autocomplete feature  . Take a look at it, it should help to differentiate artists sharing the same name. 
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2010 at 11:49pm
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 2:05am
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That is perfect Phil. Great new feature. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 2:30am
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Posted By: Vehemency
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 3:40am
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This is amazing! Looks very good now!
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 3:52am
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Wow! Hats off!!!
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Posted By: Colt
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 4:26am
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Very VERY good! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112" rel="nofollow - http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112 
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Posted By: m@x
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 8:47am
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Posted By: graphix
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 9:45am
Thanks 
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 10:11am
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Damn, that looks beautiful!!
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 3:05pm
Great new feature! Looks and works great! 
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