Artists with a '&' in their name will not be displayed correctly

[stardepp]

I do not want to be annoying, I know I have taken up this topic in 2017 before.

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=23248.msg135781#msg135781

Kindly I would like to ask again, why artists with a '&' are not displayed correctly in the current display bar, see picture:






But in the music explorer the artist is displayed correctly, see picture:




How can you reach that is displayed correctly in the artist's play bar and thus the played songs display are displayed correctly again?

[Bee-liever]

What formula are using in Preferences> Now Playing> scroll in player bar as: ?

[stardepp]

Do you mean these settings?

[Bee-liever]

Yeah. Those are the settings but, unfortunately it wasn't the fix I thought it was. 

[stardepp]

Thanks anyway for your help.

[Bee-liever]

I can see the problem with this now!
I have tracks by 'Agnelli & Nelson'.
They have an artist biography on last.fm at https://www.last.fm/music/Agnelli+&+Nelson/+wiki

But using 'Artist Biography' setting on the 'now playing bar', MB changes it to "Agnelli and Nelson" which returns 'No artist biography' plus the artist pic shows the dreaded last.fm check-your-tags pic.

Checking my Last.fm  account, the track is scrobbled properly as my tags are correct, but MB is converting the explicit & in my tags to and and I then don't get correct Artist Bio results.

[stardepp]

Ok, interesting. So the mistake lies with MusicBee? Did I understand that correctly?

[Steven]

The replacement of "&" with "and" is intentional. For the next update I have made a change so for last.fm it will try again with "&" if "and" fails

[stardepp]

Ok, good to know, thanks in advance.

[Bee-liever]

The replacement of "&" with "and" is intentional.

This must have been a relatively recent change. I have images saved in Artist Pics for "Agnelli & Nelson" dated from 8 Mar 2017 that used to be displayed. MB now searches for "Agnelli and Nelson" and doesn't find my previously saved images.

For the next update I have made a change so for last.fm it will try again with "&" if "and" fails

Thanks for this.

[stardepp]

The replacement of "&" with "and" is intentional. For the next update I have made a change so for last.fm it will try again with "&" if "and" fails

Friendly and without stress asked which update exactly do you mean?

[phred]

Since 3.2 isn't being updated any longer, he means get the latest 3.3 patch.

[stardepp]

ok, good to know, but i updated to musicbee version 3.3.7048 today and the bug is not fixed yet.