Change the way .abt (.albumtracks) works.

[graceful flume]

The way .abt works right now is like this: the bot searches for the track-list of x album on Last.fm and Spotify and displays which of my scrobbles match that specific tracklist. While 98% of the time this works, sometimes there's issues for the following reasons..

Reason #1

Some self-released albums by small artists don't actually have an official track-list on Last.fm or Spotify, which means the .abt command shows an error.

Reason #2

There are a lot of people who use local files to listen to music and sometimes change the tags to fit their needs. For example, with Japanese music, I often change the titles to (officially or unofficially) translated or romanized versions of them I find online. Another example; a lot of albums have different releases with the track-list slightly different in each (= bonus tracks or slightly different track names)

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Wouldn't it be much more efficient for the bot to simply show scrobbles I have under x album instead of searching for the tracklist and then seeing which of my scrobbles match? This would make it so the command works even with albums that have no official track-list, or albums where my track-list is different for the reasons stated in Reason #2.

I'm not very smart so there could be reasons such a change would be problematic or even impossible to do. But I just wanted to suggest it just in case.

[graceful arch]

Reason 1 can be resolved by adding the album with tracklist (and possibly the artist as well if they don't exist) to Musicbrainz which will lead to them being imported into last.fm. I'd say that's actually the better solution for that part.

When it comes to different spellings and slightly different tracklists that can be partly resolved in the same way but would require that the album title is not exactly the same for it to fully work. But this is already an edge case for artists who decide to release different albums with the same name