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BPI Radar Help Why are there labels showing up as "safe" that are in the BPI members list, and some that are showing up as "warning" that aren't on the members list? There have been multiple occurrences where a record label appears on the BPI members list (and thus returns a "warning" flag in the Radar,) but is not actually involved with the BPI. There is a running list on the right side of this help page called "Disputed Claims Department" which keeps track of the exonerated labels. (In order to be exonerated from the Radar, I need to see proof via e-mail from the label, artist, or management.) There are also several occurences where a record label may have sublabels, so those have all been added to our database and would return a "warning". We compile all the labels and their parent companies in our database of BPI members into the BPI Family Tree. Can I update an album's information? Nope, sorry. All the data is displayed directly from Amazon.com. The only way right now to get it changed is to contact Amazon. Once it gets updated through their database, it will automatically update on this web site. What if the BPI Radar result is incorrect? Since the album data is not ours, and the BPI member listings are terribly inaccurate and erroneous, it is possible that the Radar may return incorrect results. We do not claim that the data or the Radar results to be 100% correct, but we use alot of user information and double-checking to make sure the application is as accurate as it can be by itself. The application should be used to help your purchasing research, not be it. The BPI Radar does not hold or own any of the album data, so we cannot change any of it except the result that comes up based on the record label given by Amazon. If you see a Radar result that you think is incorrect, there is a link next to every result which you can submit an item for review. Why is an album coming up with a different record label that the one I own? Often times a record is released (or re-released) under different record label imprints based on where the album was manufactured or sold. The version of the record you see on the BPI Radar is the one that Amazon.com is selling, although that doesn't mean it's the only one that exists. It is also possible for one album to possibly have a "safe" version and a "warning" version because of the multiple versions. What happened to the bookmarklets? Support for bookmarklets have been discontinued. What happened to the mobile page? The mobile site has been discontinued. How does this thing work? When you run the BPI Radar, it uses Amazon Web Services to get the album information. It then checks the record label data given by Amazon against a local database based on the official list of BPI members (but heavily added to beyond that), and returns the result based on a match. | |
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