Beatport Link to Release

I updated the RSS feeds so that it links to the release instead of the artist’s home page. Sometimes it doesn’t work and gives you an error page, but if you type ‘www.beatport.com’ into your address bar on that page, you get taken to the correct page. Yeah, it’s weird, but I figure its probably better than going to the artist page. I could be convinced to change it back though, but right now I’m hoping this weirdness will magically go away, because there’s nothing I can do about it.

Technical details:

I poked around Beatportal and found that they are linking directly to releases like this:

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/67089/heater

67089 is the release ID, and ‘heater’ is the release name, stripped of punctuation and with underscores for spaces. Except you can put any arbitrary string there, and it fills in the right one. Weird, right? So I just used an underscore.

Update: I think I figured it out. Switching to https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/track/detail/trackId/_ seems to work more reliably.