Filter out empty Last.fm album results

[chrisjmoss]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
Often when you search for an album using Last.fm, you get many results, but a lot of them are empty albums with no tracks.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be useful to be able to filter empty albums from the results.

Benefit
This would make it significantly easier to scrobble unoffical and bootleg albums, which are not on discogs.

[chrisjmoss]

Adding some pictures to show why this would be useful.

Official albums are easy to find on discogs. But unofficial bootlegs are not allowed on discogs.

Searching for bootlegs on Last.fm is difficult due to all the empty albums. Filtering these out should be easy to implement and would be really helpful to scrobblers of bootlegs.

[elamperti]

Hi Chris, the issue with filtering the empty albums is that it would require loading each of them one by one in the background to check if the results are valid or not. This would take time and bandwidth, and also impact lastfm's API, so it isn't an easy fix.

Perhaps we could add a feature that checks if an album is valid or not when you hover it with the mouse (or when you click it, before going to the "empty album" view). What do you think of this? Would it be helpful for you?