In 20250101 and 20241201 dump The [b]DO NOT USE.[/b] this artist artist has no name element any more and this causes validate code in exporter to fail

[ijabz]

def validate(self, artist):
        if not artist.name:
            artist.name = '[artist #%d]' % artist.id
        return True

[ijabz]

Having the validate code always return true seems to have worked but probably not the right solution.

[ijabz]

and then importer fails because cannot handle the line
66827,,,"[b]DO NOT USE.[/b] This is an incorrect artist name represented by %C2%A0 i.e. the ""non-breaking space"" character - in Unicode: U+00A0, 0xC2A0, aka "" "" in HTML.",Needs Vote