ListenBrainz fails to recognize Japanese artists that have Latin names with Japanese characters in parenthesis

[crimeschneck]

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MBID Mapper version 2.0 preview has finally arrived!

The new MBID mapper, which supports using releases for lookup has finally appeared in an early preview: https://mapper.listenbrainz.org Check the supported use cases to see what is already working. If you find a use case that should work, but doesn’t please post the following pieces of data here in a response: inputs: artist_credit_name, release_name, recording_name expected outputs: artist_mbids, release_mbid, recording_mbid So far, this new mapper is wicked fast and muuuch better in actua…

According to this thread, the new mapper will also work with aliases. But it’s not live in LB yet.