Find more songs with “implied” redirects.

I’m proud to announce a long-overdue feature: implied redirects.

Implied redirects make it so that the site can often understand what you’re looking for even if it is misspelled or we don’t have a redirect page for the specific song.  For example, we have a redirect from the band name “Of A Revolution” to their preferred form “O.A.R.“.  However, if someone comes to the site, we do not have a redirect from “Of A Revolution:Crazy Game Of Poker” to the correct page: “O.A.R.:Crazy Game Of Poker“.  With the new implied-redirects extension, the site will automatically figure out what you meant and display the correct page.  To see it in action, go to “Of A Revolution:Crazy Game Of Poker“.

Implied redirects have been active in the API for quite some time, but didn’t work on the site until tonight.

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  1. On April 10, 2008 at 12:16 am Scott Said:

    Does this by any chance break SOAP? I’m finding that some songs are now returning “#REDIRECT: [[foo]]” as the lyrics. For example, if I request the lyrics for “7 Chinese Brothers” by “REM”, I get:

    “#REDIRECT: [[R.E.M.:Seven Chinese Brothers]]”

    I can handle this in my application, but I would think that this is something that should be handled by lyricwiki.

    Thanks for any help with this!

  2. On April 12, 2008 at 4:04 am Scott Said:

    Is this the reason that SOAP now sometimes returns the redirect message when requesting lyrics? For example, if I request the lyrics for “7 Chinese Brothers” by “REM”, it returns the “REDIRECT: [[R.E.M.:Seven Chinese Brothers]]” message.

  3. On April 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm lyricwiki Said:

    Thanks for the information. The problem was due to the webservice not handling redirects with the “:” in them. It’s been fixed so that should work now too (see your example).

    Thanks again for the heads-up. If you notice anything like that again, please toss me a message :)

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