GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 337051
automatic last.fm links don't work so well
Last modified: 2006-04-04 03:01:23 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/37668 "Because the artist names pulled from freecddb (or musicbrainz) don't always match with the ones used by last.fm, the "get information on this artist/album from the web" support often results in a 404. It might be better to link to their search page instead, at least until they complete their integration with musicbrainz as a backend (at which point we should have a canonical way to describe most albums). Example: * Rhythmbox reads "Coheed & Cambria". * This links to http://last.fm/music/Coheed%20%26%20Cambria (404) * The real link is http://last.fm/music/Coheed+and+Cambria * It is pretty forgiving, so http://last.fm/music/Coheed%20and%20Cambria also works, although avoiding the need for escaping results in a nicer looking URL."
Last.fm links have been removed in CVS. They may be included an artist/album plugin designed to provide links to different sites and other statistics, see bug #331250. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331250 ***