1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [6871]

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1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [6871]

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e.g. on E.g. on http://eng.tango.info/07798108080064 disc 1 track 2 showing in MM

Miguel Caló canta Alberto Podestá

gives in Amazon

Your search "Valses románticos [07798108080064] Miguel Caló canta Alberto Podestá" did not match any products.

EDIT: Buy Album can be found under track Properties | Basic.

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Can you please provide more details on how you searched? Did you select track 2 and used Auto-Tag from Web?

No having the album I tested with a manual search and couldn't reproduce.

(http://www.amazon.com/Valses-Rom%C3%A1n ... 835&sr=1-1)
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Re: 1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbase characters [-----]

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> Can you please provide more details on how you searched? Did you select track 2 and used Auto-Tag from Web?

I didn't search. As I said, I used Buy Album. This can be found under track Properties | Basic.
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Something doesn't make sense though, why is Amazon including [07798108080064], do you have that in the tags?

I can reproduce the issue though with the album ¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones? by Shakira. Improper character encoding is probably the issue here. (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_dmusi ... %20Shakira)
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Re: 1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [-----]

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Lowlander is surely correct about it being improper character encoding. I see that issue with an attempt to buy Solé's album Skin Deep. Amazon shows "Solé."

PS -- Wouldn't it make more sense for this feature to use Album Artist and not Artist?
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Re: 1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [-----]

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> Improper character encoding is probably the issue here.

Self-evidently.
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Re: 1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [-----]

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Lowlander wrote:Something doesn't make sense though, why is Amazon including [07798108080064], do you have that in the tags?
Yes - I put the GTIN in Album to workaround MM's failure to distinguish multiple albums with same Album (sic) and Album Artist. Since Devs have shown no inclination to fix this failure, if anyone has a workaround free of tag pollution, please do tel!
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Re: 1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [-----]

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chrisjj wrote:to workaround MM's failure to distinguish multiple albums with same Album (sic) and Album Artist. Since Devs have shown no inclination to fix this failure
How might you expect them to "fix" this?
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Re: 1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [-----]

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> How might you expect them to "fix" this?

As proposed 3 years ago: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 20#p117420
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Re: 1304 Buy Album|Amazon send garbage characters [-----]

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I still think that it is a really bad idea to consider albums based on folders.
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