For certain artists, the default name on lastfm/spotify/etc is different to on Discogs. For example, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard uses "&" on Spotify, but "and" is used on Discogs. This means that when trying to scrobble one of their albums, the scrobbles from Open Scrobbler are assigned to the "...and..." artist, while my scrobbles from Spotify are assigned to the "...&..." artist.
Currently, the only solution to this is to scrobble each individual song manually, since you can put a custom artist name in.
I am proposing an optional Artist Name Variation (ANV) field for album scrobbles, which would overwrite the artist name retrieved from Discogs when adding scrobbles. In the example above, I would be able to put "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard" in this new optional field, and the scrobbles would be assigned to the "...&..." artist page instead of the other "...and..." artist.
This change would make it significantly easier to scrobble whole albums from any artist whose name on Discogs doesn't match up exactly with the main one used on lastfm. This could easily affect many artists with an "and"/"&" difference as above, or other differences such as inconsistent spellings.
For certain artists, the default name on lastfm/spotify/etc is different to on Discogs. For example, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard uses "&" on Spotify, but "and" is used on Discogs. This means that when trying to scrobble one of their albums, the scrobbles from Open Scrobbler are assigned to the "...and..." artist, while my scrobbles from Spotify are assigned to the "...&..." artist.
Currently, the only solution to this is to scrobble each individual song manually, since you can put a custom artist name in.
I am proposing an optional Artist Name Variation (ANV) field for album scrobbles, which would overwrite the artist name retrieved from Discogs when adding scrobbles. In the example above, I would be able to put "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard" in this new optional field, and the scrobbles would be assigned to the "...&..." artist page instead of the other "...and..." artist.
This change would make it significantly easier to scrobble whole albums from any artist whose name on Discogs doesn't match up exactly with the main one used on lastfm. This could easily affect many artists with an "and"/"&" difference as above, or other differences such as inconsistent spellings.