# Why does this not work?

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/why-does-this-not-work/168944>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 15, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/why-does-this-not-work/168944 "2018-01-15T23:29:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Gold-Rojer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@Gold-Rojer](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Gold-Rojer)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/why-does-this-not-work/168944/1 "2018-01-15T23:29:57Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**

**Your code so far**

```auto
var myMusic = [
  {
    "artist": "Billy Joel",
    "title": "Piano Man",
    "release_year": 1973,
    "formats": [ 
      "CS", 
      "8T", 
      "LP" ],
    "gold": true
  }];
  [
    {
    "artist": "Jimmy John",
    "title": "Insert Album Title Here",
    "release_year": 1995,
    "formats": [
      "CS",
      "8T",
      "LP"],
      "gold": false
}];

```

**Your browser information:**

Your Browser User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36`.

**Link to the challenge:**  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/manipulating-complex-objects](https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/manipulating-complex-objects)

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**Author:** ![Gold-Rojer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@Gold-Rojer](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Gold-Rojer)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/why-does-this-not-work/168944/3 "2018-01-15T23:49:13Z")

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@camperextraordinaire Thank you so much, I still am surprised how often I am stumped by something so simple.

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/why-does-this-not-work/168944/4 "2021-01-17T20:30:15Z")

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Closed on January 17, 2021, 8:30pm UTC