Hi
iTunes has (sometimes) an issue treating ep’s as tracks rather than albums (or what they call “collections”)
I have also com across issues where they screwed up id’s and the api just does not return what it should
in your case: using 792242896 as the id in the widget your missing album shows up (but only that one), using artist id 81275822 (as you did) the itunes api just does not return that missing id.
I have also come across scenarios where they put different artists that have the same name under the same id (that’s when I added the “exclude” option)
not much I can do about that i’m afraid.
The only suggestion I have (which might not be what you want though) is to have 2 ilw widgets on your page. one with id 81275822 the other with 792242896
—comment deleted as i submitted the same one 2x — doh
Thanks for the quick reply !
Yeah that is a odd way for itunes to handle an EP release but thats a perfect work around for what i’m using it for. Great work
best
Marc
glad that workaround works for you
sometimes it feels like there’s some bloke sitting at apple doing things manually and then using the album id as artists id or thinking “hey , this guy has the same name, must be the same artist, so make them both have the same id” and stuff like that….
I cannot explain why things like this could otherwise happen ..but what do i know. I don’t even use iTunes :), just needed this widget for a site I was working on some time ago
