1,000ish pop songs with some repeats & covers, searchable by performer & title

games
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Tryad: You Are God

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I maybe finally had an idea why people are using a : instead of a , to separate the performer from the song. That’s the level of my “hacking” insights. Satisfying to get a clue though.

Is it because the performer or song may include multiple commas but probably there’s only going to be one : surrounded on each side by spaces?

And then when someone writes a magic script to iterate through the list there’s a “phoneme” to distinguish the two and sort them into separate columns?

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Bad Company : Shooting Star

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Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters - Butterfly

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I considered the use of commas in separating the artists when I chose to use a colon for the delimiter between artist and song. The dash seems to be used for the purpose a lot in YouTube video titles, but it’s not consistently done.

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Was I right about the reasoning?

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I was thinking it would be easier to parse automatically than a coma because of some of the artist listings I was seeing. A hyphen would have probably worked pretty well too, but I was trying to find a unique single character to split on. I threw <code> tags around all of mine too so they’re easy too distinguish from the rest of the text.

That’s my long-winded way of saying yes. :slight_smile: I wasn’t sure that anyone would write anything to parse it, and we’re all using different styles anyway. It’s more a matter of habit with me from writing code.

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DNCE : Cake by the Ocean

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Yay! Learning! :smiley_cat:

Okay, now what now?

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Big Audio Dynamite : Rush

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they used a lot of mellotron on that album, (played by Mike Mills[!]) I wonder if it was that? never thought about it before, just figured they hired a studio chime player but I wouldn’t be surprised. not sure the mellotron does sharp “attack” sounds, though.

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Kendrick Lamar, Alright

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REM : Begin the Begin

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They very well could have been real. I’ve never actually looked into it.

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The Pretenders : Needle and the Damage Done

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Pearl Jam : Needle and the Damage Done

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Jewel : Needle and the Damage Done

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Dave Matthews : Needle and the Damage Done

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Red Hot Chili Peppers : Needle and the Damage Done

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Tori Amos : Needle and the Damage Done

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