Track automatically connected to wrong album

Last.fm don't do album corrections in the same way it does artist and track corrections, mainly because a track can appear on multiple albums, and we don't have a way yet to reliably identify which album a track should appear on based on the information we receive from scrobbling.

I agree it's a bit annoying when tracks ignore what's actually in your tags and associate with an uploaded album, which is sometimes a Various Artists compilation (more annoying if it's not what you're listening to the song on, otherwise tolerable)

Can't the system just scrobble our album tags (from our files), before autocorrection even becomes an issue (I don't even use autocorrect)? Spot the mess made with Lastfm pulling half the tracks to an uploaded album but not others: ((fixed this one))

edit: annoying typo fixed

edit 2: example redundant

it's really frustrating having no control over your album tags!

Is there/ could there be a way to opt out?

Yes, this is extremely annoying. Why can we only switch off the auto-correction for Artist and Title?

One of my favourite albums doesn't show up under its artist. All tracks are autocorrected to be on this album: Always. If you compare the artist name on the cover and in the track list with the one that the album is linked to, it is obviously wrong. If you look on Iza Mustafa Zadeha you see that nobody ever listened to this nonexistent artist. But the album has thousands of scrobbles due to auto-correction. Why can it not just be switched off? I spend an immense amount of time on correcting every tag to get my charts right and last.fm automatically messes it up. What's up with the nice "keep your stats clean" message... WE DO!

Is there a way to contact a label? I mean, if there is a problem with switching it off, one should be able to contact the label, that they change the tags. But there is no way to contact them. For most labels there are not even people who wrote a wiki or anything. Where can we get help?

Edit: Apparently I was extremely tired when I wrote this. Just corrected about ten typos...

Well, it seems there is another thread stating the problem. First it was only songs and spelling difference of the artist, but the example with the Koda album Multiq EP is similar to what we have here...

Is there any official reply? Is it possible to make last.fm accept the tags as they are submitted without changing the albumartist? Any way to contact CBS/SONY or the Carinco AG?

I have many more examples in my library, that show that it has nothing to do with being Asian. It's a general problem. A very mainstream example:
Santana and Carlos Santana. In this case, both artists exist, but why are three of the tracks from the solo album scrobbled to the band name album and only the others to the right album? BELLA even shows up twice, depending on whether I scrobble it from my hard drive or the radio. (And it is a case for the capitalization thread...)

I agree, but it is a huge load of work to correct all this and I understand that it takes a lot of time and many people to do this.

The annoying thing, pointed at in this thread is, that with corrected tags, you still get the wrong result because of some auto-correct thing, that searches for an albumartist to the album name instead of taking the trackartist which is submitted. It is more of a general correction in the last.fm code than adding albums for thousands of songs.

Tracks that are connected to:

• Blues for Salvador should scrobble to Blues For Salvador

• Always should scrobble to Always

• OZZMOSIS should scrobble to Ozzmosis

• Bark At the Moon should scrobble to Bark At The Moon

• Time Out should scrobble to Time Out

• あしタ、天気ニなぁレ。 should scrobble to あしタ、元気ニなぁレ。

• Love Devotion Surrender should scrobble to Love Devotion Surrender

• Love Devotion Surrender should also scrobble to Love Devotion Surrender

• Dangerous should scrobble to Dangerous

• Holy Holy should scrobble to Holy Holy

• All For You should scrobble partly to All For You and partly to All For You.

Knapster01 added some news to his answer:
[...] we can't currently fix this problem. When we do get around to the larger improvement of adding release groups, this issue will be resolved. Not to mention it's a step in the right direction toward artist disambiguation.Thank you, Knapster01. But I still think it would have been nice to reply here at least once again.

DSwobod said:
Knapster01 added some news to his answer:
[...] we can't currently fix this problem. When we do get around to the larger improvement of adding release groups, this issue will be resolved. Not to mention it's a step in the right direction toward artist disambiguation.Thank you, Knapster01. But I still think it would have been nice to reply here at least once again.Sadly i'm not omnipresent, and that it falls to the more eagle eyed amongst you to spot helpful information. ;)

There's a lot of register problems with The Rolling Stones album titles:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/METAMORPHOSIS
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/LET+IT+BLEED
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/December%27s+Children+%28and+everybody%27s%29
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/got+LIVE+if+you+want+it!
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/BIG+HITS+%28HIGH+TIDE+AND+GREEN+GRASS%29
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/BEGGARS+BANQUET
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/THEIR+SATANIC+MAJESTIES+REQUEST

I listened to these albums with correct title tags (without inadequate upper or lower register). The problem is about album titles themselves. It would be nice to correct them.

Or maybe it's a slightly different issue (wrong thread)?

I'm trying to scrobble some tracks from Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος's album Τραπεζάκια έξω. All the tracks have correct album tags (Τραπεζάκια έξω). Some of them scrobble correctly under Τραπεζάκια έξω (e.g. Νέο κύμα, Μυστικό τοπίο, Το χειμώνα ετούτο), while others (e.g. Μας βαράνε ντέφια, Ας κρατήσουν οι χοροί, Τσάμικο) insist on scrobbling under Τραπεζάκια Έξω [Έ is the capital έ: epsilon (Ε, ε) with an accent]!

Edit: I see there's a problem with the display of some Greek characters: when hyperlinked, only (!) vowels with an accent disappear, when not hyperlinked all (!!!) Greek characters disappear... However when I edit the post, they are all there. Click "Quote" and you'll see them!