Typing "michael jackson" returned 7 identical-looking cards because
MusicBrainz has many different PEOPLE sharing a canonical name — the
King of Pop plus a NZ poet, a photographer, a mashup artist, a
didgeridoo player, and more, all scoring 80+ on exact-name match.
All 7 passed the score filter. All 7 rendered with the same
fallback image because iTunes/Deezer only know the famous one.
Fix dedupes by normalized (lowercase, whitespace-trimmed) name before
building Artist dataclasses. Keeps the highest-scoring entry per name,
so the King of Pop (score 100) wins over the others (all score 80-81).
Artists with genuinely different names stay separate — a search for
"the beatles" still surfaces tribute bands if they're above threshold.
Implementation note: fetch `max(limit*3, 10)` from MB instead of
`limit` directly, so the dedup pool is large enough to still return
`limit` distinct artists after collapsing duplicates. Previously the
raw fetch was capped at the caller's limit, which would have left
fewer-than-requested results after dedup for common names.
3 new tests (49 total):
- Dedupe collapses 5 same-named entries to 1 (keeps highest score).
- Dedup key is case-insensitive and whitespace-normalized.
- Dedup preserves distinct names ("The Beatles" vs "The Beatles Revival"
stay separate).
Live-verified: "michael jackson" now returns 1 card, "kendrick lamar"
returns 1 card.
Credit: kettui spotted duplicate Michael Jackson cards in the search UI.
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