Why Music Metadata Matching Fails: Lessons from a Missing Kesha Track

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A music API failed to return results for Kesha's 2025 remix 'YIPPEE-KI-YAY (The Hosed Down Remix)' despite the track existing across Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and MusicBrainz. The problem was not missing data but a flawed matching layer that could not reconcile the same song stored with slight differences across databases. Issues included a trailing period in one source's title, Unicode typographic hyphens versus standard ASCII hyphens, and inconsistent casing and punctuation conventions. The fix involved a normalisation process that folds all strings into a canonical lowercase form before comparison, stripping punctuation and collapsing whitespace. The case highlights that music metadata reconciliation across providers is a non-trivial engineering problem driven by subtle, silent inconsistencies.

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