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by AlexWD 4905 days ago
Our music information comes from Last.FM, so if an artist doesn't show up it's because Last.FM doesn't have them in their database. Last.FM's database is pretty extensive and even relatively obscure artists can often be found, but sometimes you will run into one that isn't there. Multiple and alternative sources of music knowledge is definitely something we're considering especially for more obscure artists that Last.FM might not have. That being said, the search can be fickle, so if you enter half of a name it might show no results but if you enter the full name it might show up, so there's a chance that you could be tricked into thinking an artist isn't there when it is.

The ability to remove what's coming up next preemptively is a good idea. Expect to see this feature soon.

The product is definitely not finished, but we're constantly working to improve it.

Thanks for the feedback!

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I did enter the full name of the artists, and one of them exists on Last.fm (I just checked). For the record, I am talking about the French hip-hop bands "Fixpen Sill" (which is on Last.fm) and "Botaniks Crew" (which is not). The third one I tried, "5 Majeur", did work.

> The ability to remove what's coming up next preemptively is a good idea. Expect to see this feature soon.

Great! :-)

Hm, interesting. Yeah I can't find "Fixpen Sill" in the search, either. Manually creating the link for the artist playlist does work though: http://demiba.com/artist/fixpen-sill