The update did bring about some ideas that I'd like to ask your editorial team about:

1. After a previous update like this one, I asked your editors if there were releases in those freshly updated discographies that were also worthy of a new four-and-a-half star rating where there no longer any. They kindly responded to that request - amongst those changes, I still remember Beach House surprisingly being given two 4.5s! I wonder if your team would be willing to do that again. There are now several artists who have multiple four-star albums but nothing in between. Here are some recommendations to help you:

    • Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 
    • Broadcast - Tender Buttons 
    • Chris Stapleton - Starting Over 
    • Daddy Yankee - Talento de barrio 
    • Duran Duran - Their 1982 self-titled debut 
    • Jill Scott - Beautifully Human or even her new record?
    • Jimmy Eat World - Clarity and/or Futures 
    • King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon 
    • Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence and/or Did You Know There's a Tunnel.. 
    • Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire and/or The Battle of Los Angeles 
    • Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 
    • Sophie - Product 
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz or their debut EP

2. In many cases, the artist's 'Album Pick' wasn't necessarilly the one given a five-star rating. While Zac has previously told to us that being the highest rated album in a discography doesn't automatically mean it gets the 'album pick' I did wonder if there was any incidents in the last week where your team had maybe forgotten to change it. If they had, would they take another look at some of them? To assist, here are a list of artists where the pick is now on a lower-rated non-compilation release:

    • AFI 
    • Ana Tijoux 
    • Bad Bunny 
    • Deerhunter 
    • Dirty Projectors 
    • Fear of Men 
    • Gorillaz 
    • Jazzmeia Horn 
    • Kenny Chesney 
    • Korn 
    • LCD Soundsystem 
    • Lil Wayne 
    • Lupe Fiasco 
    • Natalia Lafourcade 
    • Nathan Salsburg 
    • The New Pornographers 
    • Rosalía 
    • Timber Timbre 
    • Trivium 
    • Travis Scott 
    • Wilco

   Also, Ethel, Kralice and Lankum don't have an album pick. Want to pick one out for them?
   
   Not gonna recommend Cocteau Twins or TV on the Radio here because hopefully both 'Treasure' and 'Dear Science' will get a five-star rating the next time your team goes on a five-star rating spree! ;)
3. It was great to see Prefab Sprout's 'Steve McQueen' with a full five-star rating. However, the US edition of the same album - 'Two Wheels Good' didn't get the same treatment. Please can you update it to match?
4. Amongst all these ratings changes, two albums possibly got caught in the middle and are now listing as five-star albums on the Advanced Search engine despite having different ratings. You may want to check these out: 'Tubular Bells 2003' by Mike Oldfield and 'Delusion of the Fury' by Harry Partch. Can you find out if they've been flagged correctly?

Thanks to anyone who responds and keep up the fantastic work!

The update did bring about some ideas that I'd like to ask your editorial team about:

1. After a previous update like this one, I asked your editors if there were releases in those freshly updated discographies that were also worthy of a new four-and-a-half star rating where there no longer any. They kindly responded to that request - amongst those changes, I still remember Beach House surprisingly being given two 4.5s! I wonder if your team would be willing to do that again. There are now several artists who have multiple four-star albums but nothing in between. Here are some recommendations to help you:

    • Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 
    • Broadcast - Tender Buttons 
    • Chris Stapleton - Starting Over 
    • Daddy Yankee - Talento de barrio 
    • Duran Duran - Their 1982 self-titled debut 
    • Jill Scott - Beautifully Human or even her new record?
    • Jimmy Eat World - Clarity and/or Futures 
    • King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon 
    • Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence and/or Did You Know There's a Tunnel.. 
    • Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire and/or The Battle of Los Angeles 
    • Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 
    • Sophie - Product 
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz or their debut EP

2. In many cases, the artist's 'Album Pick' wasn't necessarilly the one given a five-star rating. While Zac has previously told to us that being the highest rated album in a discography doesn't automatically mean it gets the 'album pick' I did wonder if there was any incidents in the last week where your team had maybe forgotten to change it. If they had, would they take another look at some of them? To assist, here are a list of artists where the pick is now on a lower-rated non-compilation release:

    • AFI 
    • Ana Tijoux 
    • Bad Bunny 
    • Deerhunter 
    • Dirty Projectors 
    • Fear of Men 
    • Gorillaz 
    • Jazzmeia Horn 
    • Kenny Chesney 
    • Korn 
    • LCD Soundsystem 
    • Lil Wayne 
    • Lupe Fiasco 
    • Natalia Lafourcade 
    • Nathan Salsburg 
    • The New Pornographers 
    • Rosalía 
    • Timber Timbre 
    • Trivium 
    • Travis Scott 
    • Wilco

   Also, Ethel, Kralice and Lankum don't have an album pick. Want to pick one out for them?
   
   Not gonna recommend Cocteau Twins or TV on the Radio here because hopefully both 'Treasure' and 'Dear Science' will get a five-star rating the next time your team goes on a five-star rating spree! ;)
3. It was great to see Prefab Sprout's 'Steve McQueen' with a full five-star rating. However, the US edition of the same album - 'Two Wheels Good' didn't get the same treatment. Please can you update it to match?
4. Amongst all these ratings changes, two albums possibly got caught in the middle and are now listing as five-star albums on the Advanced Search engine despite having different ratings. You may want to check these out: 'Tubular Bells 2003' by Mike Oldfield and 'Delusion of the Fury' by Harry Partch. Can you find out if they've been flagged correctly?

Thanks to anyone who responds and keep up the fantastic work!

The update did bring about some ideas that I'd like to ask your editorial team about:

1. After a previous update like this one, I asked your editors if there were releases in those freshly updated discographies that were also worthy of a new four-and-a-half star rating where there no longer any. They kindly responded to that request - amongst those changes, I still remember Beach House surprisingly being given two 4.5s! I wonder if your team would be willing to do that again. There are now several artists who have multiple four-star albums but nothing in between. Here are some recommendations to help you:

    • Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 
    • Broadcast - Tender Buttons 
    • Chris Stapleton - Starting Over 
    • Daddy Yankee - Talento de barrio 
    • Duran Duran - Their 1982 self-titled debut 
    • Jill Scott - Beautifully Human or even her new record?
    • Jimmy Eat World - Clarity and/or Futures 
    • King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon 
    • Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence and/or Did You Know There's a Tunnel.. 
    • Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire and/or The Battle of Los Angeles 
    • Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 
    • Sophie - Product 
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz or their debut EP

2. In many cases, the artist's 'Album Pick' wasn't necessarilly the one given a five-star rating. While Zac has previously told to us that being the highest rated album in a discography doesn't automatically mean it gets the 'album pick' I did wonder if there was any incidents in the last week where your team had maybe forgotten to change it. If they had, would they take another look at some of them? To assist, here are a list of artists where the pick is now on a lower-rated non-compilation release:

    • AFI 
    • Ana Tijoux 
    • Bad Bunny 
    • Deerhunter 
    • Dirty Projectors 
    • Fear of Men 
    • Gorillaz 
    • Jazzmeia Horn 
    • Kenny Chesney 
    • Korn 
    • LCD Soundsystem 
    • Lil Wayne 
    • Lupe Fiasco 
    • Natalia Lafourcade 
    • Nathan Salsburg 
    • The New Pornographers 
    • Rosalía 
    • Timber Timbre 
    • Trivium 
    • Travis Scott 
    • Wilco

   Also, Ethel, Kralice and Lankum don't have an album pick. Want to pick one out for them?
   
   Not gonna recommend Cocteau Twins or TV on the Radio here because hopefully both 'Treasure' and 'Dear Science' will get a five-star rating the next time your team goes on a five-star rating spree! ;)
3. It was great to see Prefab Sprout's 'Steve McQueen' with a full five-star rating. However, the US edition of the same album - 'Two Wheels Good' didn't get the same treatment. Please can you update it to match?
4. Amongst all these ratings changes, two albums possibly got caught in the middle and are now listing as five-star albums on the Advanced Search engine despite having different ratings. You may want to check these out: 'Tubular Bells 2003' by Mike Oldfield and 'Delusion of the Fury' by Harry Partch. Can you find out if they've been flagged correctly?

Thanks to anyone who responds and keep up the fantastic work!

The update did bring about some ideas that I'd like to ask your editorial team about:

1. After a previous update like this one, I asked your editors if there were releases in those freshly updated discographies that were also worthy of a new four-and-a-half star rating where there no longer any. They kindly responded to that request - amongst those changes, I still remember Beach House surprisingly being given two 4.5s! I wonder if your team would be willing to do that again. There are now several artists who have multiple four-star albums but nothing in between. Here are some recommendations to help you:

    • Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 
    • Broadcast - Tender Buttons 
    • Chris Stapleton - Starting Over 
    • Daddy Yankee - Talento de barrio 
    • Duran Duran - Their 1982 self-titled debut 
    • Jill Scott - Beautifully Human or even her new record?
    • Jimmy Eat World - Clarity and/or Futures 
    • King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon 
    • Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence and/or Did You Know There's a Tunnel.. 
    • Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire and/or The Battle of Los Angeles 
    • Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 
    • Sophie - Product 
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz or their debut EP

2. In many cases, the artist's 'Album Pick' wasn't necessarilly the one given a five-star rating. While Zac has previously told to us that being the highest rated album in a discography doesn't automatically mean it gets the 'album pick' I did wonder if there was any incidents in the last week where your team had maybe forgotten to change it. If they had, would they take another look at some of them? To assist, here are a list of artists where the pick is now on a lower-rated non-compilation release:

    • AFI 
    • Ana Tijoux 
    • Bad Bunny 
    • Deerhunter 
    • Dirty Projectors 
    • Fear of Men 
    • Gorillaz 
    • Jazzmeia Horn 
    • Kenny Chesney 
    • Korn 
    • LCD Soundsystem 
    • Lil Wayne 
    • Lupe Fiasco 
    • Natalia Lafourcade 
    • Nathan Salsburg 
    • The New Pornographers 
    • Rosalía 
    • Timber Timbre 
    • Trivium 
    • Travis Scott 
    • Wilco

   Also, Ethel, Kralice and Lankum don't have an album pick. Want to pick one out for them?
   
   Not gonna recommend Cocteau Twins or TV on the Radio here because hopefully both 'Treasure' and 'Dear Science' will get a five-star rating the next time your team goes on a five-star rating spree! ;)
3. It was great to see Prefab Sprout's 'Steve McQueen' with a full five-star rating. However, the US edition of the same album - 'Two Wheels Good' didn't get the same treatment. Please can you update it to match?
4. Amongst all these ratings changes, two albums possibly got caught in the middle and are now listing as five-star albums on the Advanced Search engine despite having different ratings. You may want to check these out: 'Tubular Bells 2003' by Mike Oldfield and 'Delusion of the Fury' by Harry Partch. Can you find out if they've been flagged correctly?

Thanks to anyone who responds and keep up the fantastic work!

The update did bring about some ideas that I'd like to ask your editorial team about:

1. After a previous update like this one, I asked your editors if there were releases in those freshly updated discographies that were also worthy of a new four-and-a-half star rating where there no longer any. They kindly responded to that request - amongst those changes, I still remember Beach House surprisingly being given two 4.5s! I wonder if your team would be willing to do that again. There are now several artists who have multiple four-star albums but nothing in between. Here are some recommendations to help you:

    • Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 
    • Broadcast - Tender Buttons 
    • Chris Stapleton - Starting Over 
    • Daddy Yankee - Talento de barrio 
    • Duran Duran - Their 1982 self-titled debut 
    • Jill Scott - Beautifully Human or even her new record?
    • Jimmy Eat World - Clarity and/or Futures 
    • King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon 
    • Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence and/or Did You Know There's a Tunnel.. 
    • Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire and/or The Battle of Los Angeles 
    • Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 
    • Sophie - Product 
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz or their debut EP

2. In many cases, the artist's 'Album Pick' wasn't necessarilly the one given a five-star rating. While Zac has previously told to us that being the highest rated album in a discography doesn't automatically mean it gets the 'album pick' I did wonder if there was any incidents in the last week where your team had maybe forgotten to change it. If they had, would they take another look at some of them? To assist, here are a list of artists where the pick is now on a lower-rated non-compilation release:

    • AFI 
    • Ana Tijoux 
    • Bad Bunny 
    • Deerhunter 
    • Dirty Projectors 
    • Fear of Men 
    • Gorillaz 
    • Jazzmeia Horn 
    • Kenny Chesney 
    • Korn 
    • LCD Soundsystem 
    • Lil Wayne 
    • Lupe Fiasco 
    • Natalia Lafourcade 
    • Nathan Salsburg 
    • The New Pornographers 
    • Rosalía 
    • Timber Timbre 
    • Trivium 
    • Travis Scott 
    • Wilco

   Also, Ethel, Kralice and Lankum don't have an album pick. Want to pick one out for them?
   
   Not gonna recommend Cocteau Twins or TV on the Radio here because hopefully both 'Treasure' and 'Dear Science' will get a five-star rating the next time your team goes on a five-star rating spree! ;)
3. It was great to see Prefab Sprout's 'Steve McQueen' with a full five-star rating. However, the US edition of the same album - 'Two Wheels Good' didn't get the same treatment. Please can you update it to match?
4. Amongst all these ratings changes, two albums possibly got caught in the middle and are now listing as five-star albums on the Advanced Search engine despite having different ratings. You may want to check these out: 'Tubular Bells 2003' by Mike Oldfield and 'Delusion of the Fury' by Harry Partch. Can you find out if they've been flagged correctly?

Thanks to anyone who responds and keep up the fantastic work!

The update did bring about some ideas that I'd like to ask your editorial team about:

1. After a previous update like this one, I asked your editors if there were releases in those freshly updated discographies that were also worthy of a new four-and-a-half star rating where there no longer any. They kindly responded to that request - amongst those changes, I still remember Beach House surprisingly being given two 4.5s! I wonder if your team would be willing to do that again. There are now several artists who have multiple four-star albums but nothing in between. Here are some recommendations to help you:

    • Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 
    • Broadcast - Tender Buttons 
    • Chris Stapleton - Starting Over 
    • Daddy Yankee - Talento de barrio 
    • Duran Duran - Their 1982 self-titled debut 
    • Jill Scott - Beautifully Human or even her new record?
    • Jimmy Eat World - Clarity and/or Futures 
    • King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon 
    • Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence and/or Did You Know There's a Tunnel.. 
    • Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire and/or The Battle of Los Angeles 
    • Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 
    • Sophie - Product 
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz or their debut EP

2. In many cases, the artist's 'Album Pick' wasn't necessarilly the one given a five-star rating. While Zac has previously told to us that being the highest rated album in a discography doesn't automatically mean it gets the 'album pick' I did wonder if there was any incidents in the last week where your team had maybe forgotten to change it. If they had, would they take another look at some of them? To assist, here are a list of artists where the pick is now on a lower-rated non-compilation release:

    • AFI 
    • Ana Tijoux 
    • Bad Bunny 
    • Deerhunter 
    • Dirty Projectors 
    • Fear of Men 
    • Gorillaz 
    • Jazzmeia Horn 
    • Kenny Chesney 
    • Korn 
    • LCD Soundsystem 
    • Lil Wayne 
    • Lupe Fiasco 
    • Natalia Lafourcade 
    • Nathan Salsburg 
    • The New Pornographers 
    • Rosalía 
    • Timber Timbre 
    • Trivium 
    • Travis Scott 
    • Wilco

   Also, Ethel, Kralice and Lankum don't have an album pick. Want to pick one out for them?
   
   Not gonna recommend Cocteau Twins or TV on the Radio here because hopefully both 'Treasure' and 'Dear Science' will get a five-star rating the next time your team goes on a five-star rating spree! ;)
3. It was great to see Prefab Sprout's 'Steve McQueen' with a full five-star rating. However, the US edition of the same album - 'Two Wheels Good' didn't get the same treatment. Please can you update it to match?
4. Amongst all these ratings changes, two albums possibly got caught in the middle and are now listing as five-star albums on the Advanced Search engine despite having different ratings. You may want to check these out: 'Tubular Bells 2003' by Mike Oldfield and 'Delusion of the Fury' by Harry Partch. Can you find out if they've been flagged correctly?

Thanks to anyone who responds and keep up the fantastic work!

Given that we're now at that time of the year where hardly any new releases, I was wondering if your writers would be willing to respond to a request to fill in some of the blank spaces on your website.

With it having been the album's 25th Anniversary last year, it would be great to finally get a review for Flood by Boris - a monumental album, generally considered by fans to be on par with the likes of Feedbacker and Pink.

Another discography currently with some empty spots is Squarepusher's. Both the playful Hello Everything and the much-maligned Solo Electric Bass Vol 1 seemed to miss the chance for a review upon release. I'd still be intrigued to see what your editors think of them.

Of course, if your your editors already have plans to review other forgotten gems in the next few weeks then I'm very much look forward to seeing what they'll cover.

Every Xperi employee seems to use his/her judgment on how to perform data-entry, because there are apparently no guidelines.  For example, data-entry can list a duo's albums under the discographies of: each artist as an individual primary artist; the duo as a performing entity but not under each artist individually; or both (cross-listing).  Similarly for primary artists who are billed with their backing band, especially if that backing band has also recorded independently on its own.

So Xperi needs to first adopt data submission guidelines that would standardize its data-entry and to which users can conform.  Without guidelines, two users who are independently submitting data for the same release can have different inputs in every data field.  With guidelines, their submissions should be identical, complete and perfect.

P.S. Xperi should study how other databases (not necessarily those for music) validate user contributed release-level data, which can be achieved with some degree of automation.

Thanks.

Thanks.