[mehrzad]

A funny edge case I've found in one of the most popular music services (Last.fm). There is an instrumental post-rock ish band called Collections of Colonies of Bees and they have an album where almost all the tracks have the same name; they are all titled "Fun" except for the last track titled "Funeral". https://open.spotify.com/album/0LP8DTy4amlLIVXGOjvCo2?si=HJ3...

This has caused last.fm to think "Fun" is one of my most played songs of the year even though they were all separate tracks.

[aasasd]

I bet the most popular track name in techno is “Untitled”.

[zimmund]

Last.fm doesn't allow "untitled", "various artists", "track 01" and other titles that may suggest the song is incorrectly tagged. This leads, of course, to edge cases where an artist has a track named "untitled" and it can't be scrobbled.

Moreover, last.fm also has an issue with unicode characters and some artists/albums may have two or more different profiles. It's a mess!

[aasasd]

I actually was more traumatized when I discovered that artists with the same name are filed under the same ‘profile’, and just have a textual explanation that they are actually different. You'd think that a service purporting to do ‘big data’ processing could grab discographies off Discogs or something, and compare the album titles.

Anyway, personally I long since abandoned Last.fm in favor of more hands-on discovery.

[mehrzad]

I would guess that the problem only appears if it's the same artist and same album ID. Not sure if techno artists use "Untitled" multiple times on the same album, haha.

[aasasd]

Oh, easily—whole careers are probably made of ‘untitled’ tracks. Afaik, in edm a more common identifier for such unnamed records and tracks is the catalog number and track number or the side (for a single).

Here's one of the best albums by Hype Williams the duo: https://www.discogs.com/master/337242-Hype-Williams-Untitled (not edm but still).