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[Chris Wilson <afrowildo@xxxxxxxxx>]

It has been a while since this bug was reported. Is it still present on
the version of Rhythmbox available through the Software Centre on 11.10,
or shipped with 12.04?

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Title:
  automatic last.fm links don't work so well

Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application:
  Confirmed
Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  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.

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