Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (x-post !programming@programming.dev) (dustri.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr to c/programming@beehaw.org

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List of artist/album/song names that make dealing with music metadata harder than it should be

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[-] Bumblefumble@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for someone to drop the song '); DROP TABLE songs;--

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Hey at least <|°_°|> (robot face) uses standard keyboard keys.

[-] l3mming@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a joy to see Sigur Rós' album '()' listed. :)

Curse you artists, and your whimsical disregard for parseability.

[-] jadero@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Back in the early 1990s, I was teaching a database course. I had a list of real place names that were pretty much guaranteed to break anything the students did to place any constraints on what could be entered into the "city" field of an address. Little did I know...