Bugzilla – Bug 18101
Basic search fails to find Various Artists
Last modified: 2014-06-18 04:58:13 UTC
The basic search no longer finds Various Artists, although it does appear in the new drop-down search, and that link works correctly. If you use the search box and hit Enter or click the button, or if you use the live/basic search page, Various Artists is not found.
Change 3bcc718815093b3710d951212ef5cbb6a6719edf - don't filter searches by roles, or we might skip the VA object.
Looks good. Thanks!
Whoops. Forgot to test something... (Again, I don't know whether or not this is a separate issue.) In 7.8.1 if I set the pref labeled 'When compilation albums are grouped together, they appear under "Various Artists" by default. You can change that name below', basic search will find the VA by that name. That's not the case in 7.9. Neither the drop-down search or the live/basic search find it.
Hmm... working fine here: I set that value to "Plunder" (whatever), and I now can search for "Plunder". Are you saying that wouldn't work any more for you?
No, it does not. I've tried it with the search pref set to both beginning and within words. Is there any debugging that I can enable?
database.info should give you the exact SQL query used
Sorry, database.sql
It appears to be some kind of caching issue. I restarted the server in order to clear the server.log and after restarting it immediately started working. I changed the name and for a few minutes it failed to find the new name, but would continue to find the old one. I cleared the name and it continued to find the newest name for a bit. When I change it from blank to some name, it also fails for a period of time. Feel free to close this as fixed if you're not concerned about it.
And now the search is bringing up two Various Artists (both the drop-down and the basic search), but both of them are empty. Another way that I found to navigate to Various Artists is by going to All Artists and finding an artist that I know is on a compilation. That artist will have an album by Various Artists. If I click that artist link, it's now empty.
Yeah, there definitely is something wrong with the on-the-fly renaming of the VA object. I did see that instead of renaming it there was a new entry with the new name. The old one obviously would still be there, but empty. Something to look into when time permits...