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0019714MMADBpublic2026-08-17 21:09
Reporterrusty Assigned To 
PriorityimmediateSeverityblockReproducibilityalways
Status assignedResolutionreopened 
Product Version2.0.0 
Target Version2.1.2Fixed in Version2.1.2 
Summary0019714: Artwork/Lyrics lookup: some tracks fail to lookup / lookup incorrectly
DescriptionReported in the forum and I can confirm as well:

The following both fail to lookup in MMA 2
Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait (from This Fire)
Paula Cole - Where Have all the Cowboys gone (from This fire)

And the following looks up incorrectly:
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (from the album Black Sabbath)

The same problem occur with 1.4
Additional Informationhttps://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=103463
TagsNo tags attached.
Fixed in build1319

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related to 0021535 closedmartin Lyrics Search is not same as in MMW 

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rusty

2023-01-23 02:18

administrator   ~0070975

Last edited: 2023-01-24 22:58

In addition, as reported at https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=103579 , it seems that tracks with 'special' characters fail to look up lyrics.

Additional testing required to determine whether these are different issues.

martin

2026-05-15 14:48

developer   ~0081129

Fixed in build 2.1.2.1306

peke

2026-05-15 21:42

developer   ~0081144

Verified 1306 with sample metadata and others that contain special characters eg. specifically ' character.

rusty

2026-05-18 14:51

administrator   ~0081172

Verified 1306.

rusty

2026-07-30 16:23

administrator   ~0081749

Last edited: 2026-08-03 19:49

Tested 1317 and there seems to be a regression--the majority of albums look up with incorrect images. For example:
1 Tyson Ritter + Air (Official Audio) --> 'August'!
2 Tyson Ritter + Air --> 'EY' on various backgrounds!
3 Arcade Fire + Neon Bible --> Pizza images or Satellite images
4 Various + Pure Funk --> Car image
5 Ray Charles + The Very Best of Ray Charles --> various Aurora Berealis images
6 The Dave Matthews Band + Under the Table and Dreaming --> various images of war
7 Dave Matthews; Time Reynolds + Live at Luther College --> various images of Islands
8 The Whitest Boy Alive + Rules --> various images of 'Globant' + office buildings
9 The Crests + 16 Candles/Beside You --> Image of a 3x3 grid of images
10 New Order + Retro --> images of buildings and farms

martin

2026-07-31 14:06

developer   ~0081775

Google occasionally returns different results for the same query. It's not a regression on MMA's side.

x Tyson Ritter + Air (Official Audio) - some LEGO results
x Tyson Ritter + Air - various results
ok Arcade Fire + Neon Bible --> Pizza images or Satellite images
ok Various + Pure Funk --> Car image
ok Ray Charles + The Very Best of Ray Charles --> working for me
x The Dave Matthews Band + Under the Table and Dreaming - different results
ok Dave Matthews; Time Reynolds + Live at Luther College --> working for me
ok(partly) The Whitest Boy Alive + Rules --> on first attempt, returns baseball match; on second attempt it's working.
ok The Crests + 16 Candles/Beside You --> working for me
ok New Order + Retro --> working for me

 I will look into it deeply on Monday.

rusty

2026-08-03 16:53

administrator   ~0081779

Last edited: 2026-08-03 16:56

Retested today in both MMA and MMW, and MMA fails 90% of the time (only the New Order track worked) and MMW 2024 succeeds 100% of the time.

martin

2026-08-03 18:49

developer   ~0081781

Fixed in build 2.1.2.1318

rusty

2026-08-03 19:55

administrator   ~0081782

Tested 1318.
Tracks 1-6 looked up as expected
But then track 7 failed (first it found Islands, then it found porn, then it found images of Donal Trump)
After track 7 failed, MMA was in a state where all lookups failed (including lookups of tracks 1-6 which previously worked)!

Debug log: ZQ19QDBPIA

martin

2026-08-11 16:07

developer   ~0081828

Fixed in build 2.1.2.1319

rusty

2026-08-17 20:54

administrator   ~0081890

Last edited: 2026-08-17 21:09

Verified 1319. It's generally working very well!

The only problem is that lookups from the cover art archive almost always appear as a large exclamation point. This is problematic because those non-functional images appear at the top. I would suggest:
a) the issue should be fixed
b) if it's not fixable, is it possible to not show such images whenever they occur? Or to at least present them lower down the list?