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Re: Adding The Band to my chart

albummaster — Wed, 1 Apr 2020 07:01:52 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 04/01/2020 11:01

Hi, apologies for the continued issue. I did make a few tweaks and things have improved (definitely for other artists with short/common names but looks like there's still an issue with The Band for some reason). I'll check back into this to try and improve things a bit more.

The year/decade chart suggestions as well are something that I'll check into (also raised by Jameth in another thread in relation to pick from favourites/ratings etc where it's more contained than a free search). The reason for the greyed-out entries is primarily to make people aware that an album is not eligible (otherwise by *not* showing an album, I think a lot of duplicates would be added with people falsely thinking an album is not on the site yet). As well, by showing everything it handles the case where there might be alternate spellings/artist name variations on different releases (people would have no way of checking a release already exists - perhaps in a different year to what they thought (or maybe BEA is wrong) - and this again might lead to duplicates being added).

Re: Adding The Band to my chart

Boltzmann — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:50:22 GMT

Author: Boltzmann

Posted: 03/31/2020 17:50

Almost forgot about this question. So it still doesn't work, on mobile devices at least. I would suggest making the top suggestion one that matches 100% with what is typed and/or the suggestion(s) with less added characters to what is typed, because the suggestions seem to go like "The A... Band", "The B... Band", etc. The main search bar does this too: The Band appears as one of the last suggestions when you type in "The Band" (the top suggestion is The Smiths and other random bands, which is even stranger).
Also, I would suggest not showing suggestions that are from a different year when you're working on a year chart. I don't think they're much use. Maybe only show it when they match 100%, so that people don't start adding albums double because they think it doesn't exist on the site when they're just in the wrong year (but people should really just double check imo). Might solve such issues too.

Obviously because of my late response, it is not too important to me, so no rush.

Re: Adding The Band to my chart

albummaster — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:02:48 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 03/19/2020 06:02

Thanks for reporting. I'll check into why this is happening...

EDIT: Added a few tweaks and hopefully this is now working a little better.

Adding The Band to my chart

Boltzmann — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:05:38 GMT

Author: Boltzmann

Posted: 03/18/2020 11:05

So I tried to add the album The Band by the band The Band to my chart, but other suggestions were so overly present that it becomes impossible to find it between the suggestions because there is a cut-off.
Maybe on the desktop version there might be more suggestions, or a better algorithm, but nonetheless, I would deem this an issue.

Update: Nope, same issue on the desktop version. Has there changed in the algorithm? I don't suppose the album is on zero charts.