Bugzilla – Bug 3541
Various Artists link initially missing in Browse Artists list
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
Initially I couldn't see a Various Artists link on the first page of Browse Artists. I navigated to "V" and found various artists there. I couldn't see an album that I was looking for, so I searched for it. I browsed that album, and could see that tracks had Compilation album: Yes reported in the song info. Then when I went back to the initial Browse Artists page, I could see the Various Artists link had appeared there, and at the top of any browse artist page.
probably also bug 2563
This is fixed now.
I sorted out some bad tags for some albums that were being incorrectly detected as compilations. I then did a "Look for new and changed music" scan, which didn't fix the albums. So I did a full rescan. After the scan completed, I didn't have "Various Artists" listed as the first artist under Browse Artists anymore. Eventually by navigating around (not sure what I did to cause it), it does get displayed. So this bug doesn't appear to be fully fixed. I am trying a few more rescans to see if I can reproduce.
I too am seeing this - no Various Artist at the top of the Artists view. I can't actually find it anywhere.
Subject: Re: Various Artists link initially missing in Browse Artists list What is the mysql output from: select id,name from contributors where name like '%Various%';
I'm seeing something of the opposite, but perhaps it's related. There's a 'Various Artists' link listed as the first artist on *every* page in the Browse Artists pages. I'm guessing that the intended behavior is to list it only once, on the first page. This is at r8332. FWIW, my r7498 installation of SlimServer does the same thing.
Can someone run the SQL line below? Jim - the behavior you are seeing right now is correct as far as the code goes.. I need to speak with Dean to see if this is behavior we want, or if we only want to show it on the first page.
Since reporting that the "Various Artists" link item was broken again, I have subsequently done several complete rescans and haven't noticed the problem again. I ran your query anyway out of curiosity, and it returns one record: id=94, name="Various Artists" I then ran "SELECT * FROM albums where contributor = 94;", which returned 15 records. I have 36 various artist albums that are displayed via the web UI though. One of the 15 records has compilation=null, but still appears in the list of 36 various artists through the web UI. Does this sound normal?
Yes, that sounds normal.
Robin / Phil - are you still seeing this behavior with the latest svn? Or July 14th and later? Thanks
Updated to latest SVN and performed a full rescan. Various Artist link appears on first page of artists list as expected. So far, so good.
Ok.. please reopen if you have a reproducable case then. Thanks
Reproduced this again. All I need to do to recreate it is a clean and rescan everything. Various Artist link is then missing from the first page. If I then go to Various Artists under V link, all albums have no songs. Something I then do by navigating/browsing causes the various artist link to subsequently come back, and the album content are then browsable. I believe it is when I browse to a various artist album via browse albums, although I am repeating again to confirm that.
It appears that the various artist link does not come back until a partial rescan is performed. However, this seems to cause problems with albums splitting into several items, especially various artist albums (see bug 3854).
Subject: Re: Various Artists link initially missing in Browse Artists list Phil - can you try applying the patch here: http://electricrain.com/daniel/patches/va-and-new-album-creation.patch and see if that helps? Thanks
Phil - can you see if this is still an issue after the VA changes which got checked in yesterday? Thanks
I performed a full rescan after taking the VA changes the other day. The Various Artist link was immediately listed, so it appears good. However, I switched the PC on today, and my music library was totally empty! It was fine before I switched off this morning. Just rescanning now, then I will look for new and changed music to check the link remains.
Phil - how did the rescan look?
Everything has been fine after a couple of reboots and rescans.