murdos
Bandcamp importer: featuring artists bug
It looks like Monstercat's Bandcamp page started standardizing "feat." into "featuring" and the importer script automatically catches that and splits the artists into two fields of artist credit and adds the "feat." join phrase, which is awesome! (The cover art and other sources for the same release still use "feat." and not "featuring", so I prefer to use that one over the standardized one). However there seems to be an issue in mb with re-using existing recordings and mb thinks the artist credit is different, even though it's exactly the same. The following is an example release where such bug occurs: https://music.monstercat.com/track/let-you-down and this is how the bug looks like:
Selecting the check-mark to update the recording artist credit has no effect, obviously. If I try to create the same release manually without importing it via the script, there is no issue:
So I think it might be a bug with the importer script. Thank you for looking into this issue, much appreciated!
I'm not sure this issue is due to the userscript, it looks to me it's an issue on server side instead.
@mwiencek @yvanzo : does it ring a bell on your side ?
There is also a related bug when an artist is "credited as": https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9789 , both issues happen when you try to re-use already existing recordings, so the cause might be similar.