Bugzilla – Bug 4637
Albums with songs from multiple years are not display correctly in Browse Years listing
Last modified: 2008-02-13 10:36:39 UTC
If you scan in an album containing songs from a variety of years, Slimserver lists all those years in "Browse Years" but does not list the songs in the appropriate year -- it clumps them all into one year as an album. For example: if I take 2 songs, one is tagged with the year 1962 and the second is 1969 ... Slimserver displays both 1962 and 1969 when you browse Years, but both songs are listed under 1969. 1962 is empty. Both songs have the same album and artist tags. This is with SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11024 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 I can attach files if requested.
Dan, is this one you reproduced yourself or is this something a customer reported? -- Chris (from Steven's PC)
Subject: Re: Albums with songs from multiple years are not display correctly in Browse Years listing I reproduced this myself.
This will not be fixed. The browse years is done by the album year, and I have no intention of changing it.
The how does the browsing Years end up with empty years? That's still a bug. My guess is that the years table is populated during the scan of tracks from the dates stamped on the tracks, and then that table is then used when browsing by years. But the years table is redundant and can be eliminated. If you're going to use the year of the album then you should use "SELECT DISTINCT(year) FROM albums" for creating the list of years to browse.
This feature does make sense, would it be difficult to do this? Is this an enhancement request?
I had another customer contact support about this issue. He has allot of older music that he would like to sort by year.
Re-opening this bug, Anoop would you attach a file from this customer please?
Created attachment 2130 [details] test file This is a file that I have that does not show up correctly when browsing by years.
resetting for review.
skip the review, lets merge this with bug 5211 as it is already targetted for 7.0 and would cover the same scope in regard to handling albums with tracks of multiple years. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5211 ***
*** Bug 7098 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***