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That dress fresher than me, Trick Daddy
It’s going to get old that I repeatedly say Kapell’s API pulls together many sources, but it will continue to be true. In today’s news I was following up on the API’s failure to recognize Trick Daddy’s 5th most popular album and found a peculiar problem: Apple’s data for www.thug.com contained a denormalized artist name of トリック・ダディ which is evidently katakana for Trick Daddy?
Regardless, this caused issue in matching and further investigation yielded this errant denormizalition causes ~5.5% (3,422,292) of Apple’s albums to “mis-flatten” in this way, which affects our internal mapping of Apple to MusicBrainz to fail for some of that subset. Adding code for this yielded ~55,000 positive album matches and ~500,000 tracks rescued as a result.
Happy enriching!