A multi‐source seeder for digital releases

It still comes up all the time for me. Mostly on Spotify & Deezer releases. Seems not to be working on Apple Music releases. I know of no way to force it.

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just noting that south korea seems to be a problem, too.
i ran an ep here and it shows it as excluded, but it is definitely available: ‎Fantasy - Single - 페이의 앨범 - Apple Music

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You forgot to check the auxiliary box for iTunes at the bottom. It finds it when you do that. But yes, it is removing South Korea from the Deezer results

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Hi, do you mind sharing the original Tisket source code with me?
The link shared by the creator returns a 404 error.
I just want to learn a few things from it.
Thank you.

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I don’t know where this is being discussed, but has there been any update on why the iTunes UPC lookup API no longer works?

Edit: I noticed the iTunes UPC lookup API started working a couple days ago. YMMV. I still don’t know whether Apple intentionally took it down because of tools like the one being discussed here.

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It doesn’t appear to be working for new releases, which leads me to believe that there is an arbitrary cut off date after which UPC lookups no longer work.

For example, here’s a release from October 2021:

$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?upc=8718723185646' |jq
{
  "resultCount": 1,
  "results": [
    {
      "wrapperType": "collection",
      "collectionType": "Album",
      "artistId": 387969348,
      "collectionId": 1589460842,
      "artistName": "Various Artists",
      "collectionName": "Volume 005 - EP",
      "collectionCensoredName": "Volume 005 - EP",
      "collectionViewUrl": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/volume-005-ep/1589460842?uo=4",
      "artworkUrl60": "https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music115/v4/1c/0e/84/1c0e84f1-7634-a5d9-62c2-165d4c6fdc6f/source/60x60bb.jpg",
      "artworkUrl100": "https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music115/v4/1c/0e/84/1c0e84f1-7634-a5d9-62c2-165d4c6fdc6f/source/100x100bb.jpg",
      "collectionExplicitness": "notExplicit",
      "trackCount": 4,
      "copyright": "℗ 2021 We’re Going deep",
      "country": "USA",
      "currency": "USD",
      "releaseDate": "2021-10-08T07:00:00Z",
      "primaryGenreName": "Dance"
    }
  ]
}

Compared to a release from this month:

$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?upc=8718723192361' |jq
{
  "resultCount": 0,
  "results": []
}

As far as I’m aware Apple has not published any information about changes to the iTunes API, but it seems to me that it is being slowly phased out in favour of the Apple Music API (which does not support UPC lookups). This began when iTunes URLs started redirecting to Apple Music.

Actually, it may well be related to this:

Anyone know of any releases that were put out on the 24/25/26th November 2021?

Yes:

Thanks. I just manually tested UPC lookups for each of those releases:

  1. Succeeded
  2. Failed
  3. Failed
  4. Succeeded

So the results are inconclusive unfortunately.

I’m finding that having only 5 languages having English as default option in a-tisket’s language field leads certain users to not bother selecting the correct language using the release editor before submitting a release. This is an area where this (otherwise excellent) tool leads to lower data quality. I would either support the full list or just remove the field altogether and let users manually set the language using the release editor, or leave the field blank if in doubt.

Edit: Perhaps having “English” as default is more to blame than having a limited number of options. Amended my suggestion accordingly.

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Another suggestion: a “copy ISRCs” button so that ISRCs gleaned by a-tisket from the Deezer API can easily be pasted into https://magicisrc.kepstin.ca/. MagicISRC might need an update for this to work smoothly, so maybe a userscript might be a better solution (at least in the short term).

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hey! just wondering- i’ve been making releases without curaçao worldwide, but i’m now realizing that they do have spotify? see, this shows a release that is available in all countries except curaçao, and this is only from spotify:
https://d.ontun.es/#/explorer/album/1RdjrGEcYyiz3NxHLXciPe

would this be a spotify bug then, or do major labels purposely not include it? also, i noticed the reason the old atisket says “worldwide” is because they just don’t list it ? like it doesn’t say it’s in the included countries…
i just wish i knew someone who lives there so i could ask them :smiling_face_with_tear:

sorry if this has already been covered! i didn’t read the full thread.

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If it’s Spotify only release, I usually don’t mark it Worldwide. Fortunately, most aren’t, but looks like this one might be.

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When adding releases by ATO Records with a-tisket be very careful. Typically, there is a standalone US release, standalone CA release partnered with a 2nd label (Fontana North, etc) & a release outside of North America. This is very common and a-tisket unfortunately treats them all the same because the barcode is the same with 2 extra zeroes added on US releases and not on others, etc. Best practice is to look at the Spotify ISRC submit page (https://d.ontun.es/) or Spotify API (which https://d.ontun.es/ uses). This way you’ll see all the different releases next to each other and know which releases are where. The Apple Music releases have different IDs in the different countries, even though they might share the same base barcode.

This is another reason why a-tisket should use Apple IDs for the search instead of barcodes. If it used IDs this error would never occur.

Update: Example release group: Release group “NYE (Violents remix)” by Joseph - MusicBrainz

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Any chance of a dark theme?

EDIT: Please make the logo into a hyperlink that leads to https://atisket.pulsewidth.org.uk/ , if you searched for something and want to search for something else entirely there doesn’t seem to way to do that except manually going to that link again.

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You can just scroll to the bottom and search again. The Dark Reader Chrome extension works great on a-tisket if you want a dark mode.

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Searching again for a completely different album merges the two searches for me, doesnt it for you?

Good point about dark reader.

you have to click “clear search form” next to where you enter the link :3

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fwiw I’ve clicked that header logo heaps of times expecting it to take me to the home page

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Ah, gotcha. That’s a bit confusing but now I know.

I still think the logo should be clickable though, that’s just standard website stuff.

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@atj : Apple Music URLs no longer work for non-streaming, download-only releases. The failure of #2 and #3, which still exist in the iTunes Music Store, match up with this behavior change.

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