Add Listens/Track Linking Issue

Currently, certain tracks remain unlinkable and unaddable - as a track

Take, for instance, the track End of All Wars by Holy Dragons - this is on the Guardians of Time, Part 1 album which I added a day before I scrobbled the track on May 5th. Yet, today, after attempting to link it 10 days later, it still didn’t appear as a linkable track…

The same exact issue is true with the track ‘All Come to an End’ from Sad’s release Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening, which was also added on May 4th, whose track was played on May 5th, and remains unlinkable…

Now, here is where it gets very, very interesting…

While trying to scrobble the full broadcast of Toxic Sickness Residency Show / February / 2026 , I actually did not notice you could now ‘add albums’ (which includes bulk adding any release - brilliant feature, I love you)…

So, as I was trying to link the tracks from the playlist manually, I was frustrated to see that none of the Darkrsider tracks appeared… But out of nowhere, a DJ La Carotte track appeared… with two releases available… Including the Toxic Sickness Residency Show release that was added on April 27th..!

And… when I went to add album, not only could I scrobble the entire Toxic Sickness broadcast in one click, but I saw that the albums from Holy Dragons and Sad were all available for full scrobbling…

So, this is a relief on many ways. These tracks are still accessible and addable, but only through a different means.

I hope that this information helps the ListenBrainz team and also that any other users who have experienced similar issues can also find relief in being able to work around their problem potentially.

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Hi!
Thanks for the feedback. You’re totally correct, there are two mechanisms at play here, one that uses the MusicBrainz database or API directly (for example you can paste a recording URL from MB in the “link listen” modal, that should work, but also the album search in “add albums”), while the other uses a cached version of the data, updated regularly.

The issue here is that the update to the cache was lagging behind and so these newer entities were not available in it.

We’re doing some improvement to our infrastructure, as at the moment it is unstable and something tends to break every other week.
Thanks for your patience as we improve the situation!

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