Artists like ".diedlonely" (leading dot, †, ✝, _ …) weren't surfaced by iTunes,
so the download's metadata lookup fell through to a titleOnly match — grabbing a
same-titled track by another artist (e.g. the "In the Bleak Midwinter" Christmas
carol: Holiday genre, 176s single) and steering the YouTube search to the wrong
(slowed) version.
- backend/metadata.js: strip leading non-alphanumeric from the search artist and
the first-word comparison so the real artist matches (and the right album/genre/
duration are used).
- android ExploreViewModel: strip leading symbols from the search term so the
Explore tab finds these artists.
Keeps the original name for display/storage — only the search/compare is trimmed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HoneyandClaude Opus 4.8
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