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title: "And I remember and — Kapell"
description: "The connecting word `and` gives us a hard time, but we found another bug under that particular rock and more matches are the result."
canonical: "https://kapell.fm/blog/platform-and-and-and/"
published: "2026-06-27"
---

Platform June 27, 2026

# And I remember and

Instead of treated, we get tricked. - Jay-Z

BY THE NUMBERS PLATFORM · LIVE

API SURFACE enrichment

IMPROVED MATCHES 20,801 albums

EFFECTIVE 2026-06-28

It’s inevitable that my own musical tastes will color improvements to Kapell’s enrichment, since it’s the stuff I play most often. Today it was [Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings’ *100 Days, 100 Nights*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Days,_100_Nights) giving not just a lack of enrichment, but a full-on MusicBrainz match failure.

Turns out, when implementing matching, I handled connector symbols but I neglected to properly include connector *words* like “and”. Oops. Adding support for this yielded 6,087 Apple to MusicBrainz album matches.

Excitingly (?!) this yielded another bug! [100 Days, 100 Nights](https://musicbrainz.org/work/93c4c921-30fd-4815-9f99-a898496c1fd7) was also a single. This resulted in a release-group collision — singles and albums are release groups in MusicBrainz. The code bailed when this happened, since it’s unclear what to do. Now, we use Apple’s “type” to break the tie, preferring a match between Apple and MusicBrain’s album types. This tie unjammed 10,272 lonely albums.

Kapell — for macOS

Press play. Meet the band.

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