hi folks - new to listenbrainz but been sending data to last.fm for a bit. When I signed up to listenbrainz today it imported my last.fm data and as I've been sitting here tonight jamming away new tunes are getting pulled into it from last.fm. But when I go Explore > Fresh Releases > For you it says "oh no" and suggests that it needs more listens before it can prepare. Is this just a wait thing or
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NorthByte
does data pulled from last.fm not function for that part of the site?
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NorthByte
on dashboard it says I have nearly 5K listens listed.
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YoMo12[m]
It takes some time after an import
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NorthByte
ok cool just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything incorrect - I'll give it a few days to see if it can offer me any recommendations or suggest people with similiar tastes.
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BlastboomStrice[
Yay I think the import slowly appears in the stats
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BlastboomStrice[
Woo I think they were updated now:))
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BlastboomStrice[
Ive noticed something, but I dont know if its a common problem or if it is worth a ticket
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BlastboomStrice[
1. There is a band, which I think I've linked all of their songs possibly months ago. For some reason, in the stats they appear for the bigger part as linked (which is expected), but also appear unlinked for a few hundred listens (which is unexpected
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BlastboomStrice[
Ok this one is wrong
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BlastboomStrice[
Rationalistas is mentioned twice
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BlastboomStrice[
But apparently the two words dont have the same characters
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BlastboomStrice[
I had to copy paste the name in the linking menu
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BlastboomStrice[
The other thing:
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BlastboomStrice[
2. While on my main account, the unlinked Rationalistas are at ~300, on my alt it is about 500
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BlastboomStrice[
But I did export my main account listens and imported them on my alt on september 1st
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BlastboomStrice[
Why's that the case?
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BlastboomStrice[
BlastboomStrice[: Compare it to this
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monkey[m]
Would this additional message have helped clarify it for you NorthByte (IRC)?
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monkey[m]
Blastboom Strice: I think the first issue is the same as LB-1816 . If you could add your own example with screenshots and links to the page on that ticket it might be helpful.
Not sure what you mean by "the two words dont have the same characters", they look the same to me, but....
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monkey[m]
As for issue number 2, without a more detailed analysis (such as using elbisaur or alistral , two CLI tools made by the community) it's hard to know what could be different between the two. Do you have the same total listen count on both accounts?
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monkey[m]
<aerozol[m]> "Are some of the new graphs not..." <- It is the waiting game I'm afraid. All stats need to be calculated following deployment, and some ranges are going to be missing until they are calculated
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monkey[m]
<elkiensad[m]> "unkown.png" <- That looks so odd. I'm going to see about other curve extrapolation options for that graph...
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monkey[m]
Also about generating more colours
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monkey[m]
Ping holycow23 ^ if you're interested in feedback regarding the new stats graphs
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holycow23[m]
monkey[m]: Hey, yes ansh pinged me regarding this, looking into a better method to show the same
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monkey[m]
Also just generally the community being excited about the new viz ;)
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BlastboomStrice[
(I will read the messages better a bit later)
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BlastboomStrice[
<monkey[m]> "Not sure what you mean by "the..." <- When I was searching the group name in the artist field in the "link listens" page, it would not return any listens to be linked. When I copied the name of the group (where it appears unlinked), it did return listens. Thus I supposed some letters may be different or something (like a greek o maybe?)
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BlastboomStrice[
I'll have to look into it later
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monkey[m]
Huh. Interesting.
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BlastboomStrice[
<monkey[m]> "As for issue number 2, without a..." <- Hmm I see I see. About the listen count, it used to be the same when I imported them 3days ago, but now that I losted to a few songs it changed a bit. Though it's like 50more listens or so, nothing significant
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BlastboomStrice[
s/losted/listened/
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BlastboomStrice[
Listenbrainz listen backups do contain a musicbrainz recording id for the importer to use and the importer does use it to link them when I import them, right?
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BlastboomStrice[
s/backups/exports/
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BlastboomStrice[
* Listenbrainz listen exports do contain a musicbrainz recording id (for any listen linked to musicbrainz) for the importer to use and the importer does use it to link them when I import them, right?
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monkey[m]
Good question. Reading the code, they should be inserted as-is apart from removing a couple of fields, recording_mbid should be untouched
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BlastboomStrice[
Hmmmm
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BlastboomStrice[
Then at least one of the pages lie I guess
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BlastboomStrice[
<BlastboomStrice[> "When I was searching the group..." <- Ok, update on issue 1.
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BlastboomStrice[
Turns out that now when I type the name of the group in "link unmatched listens" page it does return listens. I think this didnt work like a month ago when I had tried it, hmmm
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BlastboomStrice[
Unless Im misremembering
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BlastboomStrice[
Eitherway, I guess issue 1. is not an issue
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BlastboomStrice[
Issue 2. though still is a mystery cuz if the importer does use the mbid of linked listens in the export json, then the listens per artist should be the same
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monkey[m]
<BlastboomStrice[> "Issue 2. though still is a..." <- Could you please check that the exported listens in question do indeed contain the recording_mbid in the export zip?
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monkey[m]
I know that when you manually link a listen, that information is stored in a separate table in the database, so I suspect that when exporting your LB history the linked MBIDs might not be part of the exported listens.
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BlastboomStrice[
Oh
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BlastboomStrice[
Will do in a few minutes
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monkey[m]
No rush. Appreciate the extra work you're doing :)
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BlastboomStrice[
Looking at it, turns out the mbid is part of the exported listens
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BlastboomStrice[
But I found various songs that werent linked
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BlastboomStrice[
On my alt*
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BlastboomStrice[
For example this:
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BlastboomStrice[
Actually, should I maybe make a ticket?
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BlastboomStrice[
I suppose it just adds my listens to my account letting the system automatically link them instead of the importer doing it itself
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BlastboomStrice[
Cuz I see my alt has 80% similarity with my account too
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BlastboomStrice[
it should be like 99.99%
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BlastboomStrice[
for example this
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BlastboomStrice[
is this
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BlastboomStrice[
(not linked on my lb alt account)
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BlastboomStrice[
will probably make it a ticket as improvement, to allow (maybe on by default) for the importer linking the listens upon adding them using the mbid's provided