Sorry, meant the Bandcamp Album Url field accessible via Manual Edit>Other.
Bandcamp support for SongKong
So the basic issue is that on Bandcamp when searching for a match compilation albums are not usually grouped by artist and then album, instead they are grouped by label then album but we dont have the label metadata to find that in first place.
And if we have already matched to Bandcamp before then the Bandcamp Album Url and the Bandcamp Artist Url are both completed and we just do an update. But you have only added the Bandcamp Album Url so its not a viewed as an update of an existing match. I dont know what album you are trying to match to but if it is a compilation then there probably is not an Artist Url you could use anyway.
The reason we require both is we use this to indicate that SongKong has actually matched to the Bandcamp release rather than it just has a link to a Bandcamp Album because of a link provided by a MusicBrainz match.
We can probably improve this, so have raised issue - https://jthink.atlassian.net/browse/SONGKONG-2718
(sorry for the late reply, I was busy with other stuff) The albums in question are not compilations. A couple of examples:
Okay so the reason I assumed they were compilations is because compilations sit underneath the record label rather than the artist, so in the first case its url is this
https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/parallell-aesthethics
and sluchaj is a record label not an artist, so okay it is not a compilation but a collaboration but because it sits under a record label rather than artist we cant usually match it and that is the covered by the issue I raised.
The second album is also a collaboration but it sits under the artist url of one of the artists, Florien Arbenz
https://florianarbenz.bandcamp.com/album/the-alpine-session
If you add https://florianarbenz.bandcamp.com as the Bandcamp Artist Url, and then rerun Correct from Bandcamp this one should work.
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Could there be an option to force the match? I just got another album with the same setup, not a compilation but a collaboration, with the album under the label’s URL. This is not uncommon for self-published or small label releases.
I wonder if you enter the label url as the bandcamp artist url (and you have already added bandcamp album url) does it work?