I'm annoyed by looking at my unlinked listens page on LB and seeing a lot of unlinked listens, where all I have to do to link it is copy, verbatim, the string it says it was submitted with into the search bar on a MusicBrainz page, and paste the MBID/URL for the literal first result in. But when I try to do a search from within the ListenBrainz page with that string, it can't turn up the correct recording, which is why I'm
2025-08-06 21803, 2025
silver_skree[m]
guessing a match fails in the first place. Why does this happen? Is it a known issue?
2025-08-06 21824, 2025
silver_skree[m]
Many OC ReMix tracks exhibit this phenomenon
2025-08-06 21832, 2025
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2025-08-06 21833, 2025
lucifer[m]
can you share an example recording with which you are facing this issue?
2025-08-06 21847, 2025
lucifer[m]
link to your listens page and expected MB match.
2025-08-06 21845, 2025
silver_skree[m]
my listens page doesn't have a ton of them in the feed, as I'm looking at them through the Explore/Link Listens page, which I don't think you can link out to someone else as the page just pulls your own logged-in user data, but I can submit some track titles that it happens with. I've held off on finishing linking them all, about 5 left
2025-08-06 21833, 2025
silver_skree[m]
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past “The Darkness and the Light” OC ReMix - McVaffe... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/chatbrainz.org/pOiEaHgTfXSPlbqNwxRdxwOK>)
2025-08-06 21819, 2025
silver_skree[m]
Here's my listens feed page anyway, though it's not immediately demonstrative of what I'm talking about
In any case, using the "copy text" button on the listenbrainz link-listens page to put that string into the search bar doesn't turn up the results it should, but pasting the same string into a musicbrainz page search bar set to "recording" typically brings up the correct recording as the first result
it seems to work for me in the first case at least.
2025-08-06 21823, 2025
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2025-08-06 21824, 2025
lucifer[m]
ah my bad, i think you mean this and not LB search.
2025-08-06 21813, 2025
lucifer[m]
yeah, this doesn't search MB but LB's mapper. if you search the same track + artist as your listen, you are unlikely to find a match here because as you said the mapper would have found it itself otherwise. this is mostly useful if the track metadata is slightly wrong.
2025-08-06 21836, 2025
lucifer[m]
i guess we can add MB search too here. maybe open a ticket for it?