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[All Platforms][Discover] Differentiate between bands with the same name in Discovery.

[All Platforms][Discover] Differentiate between bands with the same name in Discovery.

I often get songs on my Discover Weekly / Release Radar that are from a band I don't follow or listen to, but shares a name with a band I do like.  Three specific examples are Low, Devo, and Oliver.  There seem to be multiple bands with those names, for example there's the "Whip It" Devo everyone knows, but also a hip-hop group called DEVO.

 

Spotify seems to be using a primitive name check when adding songs to Discover, rather than going using a more accurate method like using an internal ID number.  I assume that within your system, each band has a unique designation besides their name.

 

This is a small but annoying issue, and has been going on for a long time.  It's a very strange oversight in what is otherwise a very sophisticated discovery system.

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