Bugzilla – Bug 847
Multiple albums shown for collections
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:37:04 UTC
The 'Browse Albums' page shows a line for each song in an album - so if an album has 10 songs you get 10 copies of the album name. This happens only for albums which are a collection of songs by different artists; the 'part of a compilation' tag is not checked.
I assume from the mention of the 'part of a compilation' option that you are using itunes. it seems to me that this is actually proper behaviour given the retentive nature required to alleviate the 'greatest hits problem'. does cheking that option collect the artists into a single album properly?
yes, i'm using itunes. i checked the compilation tag for all songs in one of these albums, waited for the rescan, but the album still shows up multiple times
I see the same behaviour - I am not using itunes. My directory structure is set up with one directory for each artist, so tracks from albums with multiple artists will end up in multiple directories. I then get multiple copies of the album name in "Browse Albums" (and artwork in "Browse Artwork") Would it not be possible to assume that albums of the same name are the same album (possibly excluding a few obvious ones like "Best of...", "Live", "Greatest Hits", etc.?)
oh dan....I'm betting this will interest you.
Ben, is your directory structure similar to Bart's? Are the tracks of your multi-artist albums in different directories?
no, the example i'm looking at has 13 songs all in the directory G:\tunes\Compilations\100% Dynamite!_ Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, &\ some of the lines for this album in the album list show "1 album with 1 song by 1 artist." but don't have a song listed. other lines in the album list have 2 songs under them. there are 13 lines for this album in the album list. line 1 has 1 song, line 5 has 4, line 7 has 2, line 11 has 4, line 13 has 2; the other lines have no songs there is a pattern: the songs are distributed in reverse alphabetical order - line 1 has song by Willie ... line 13 by Cedric and Brentford does that offer any clues?
Ben, a couple of questions: 1) Are the names of the duplicate albums all identical in terms of casing and spacing? 2) Is this the only album for which this happens? More specifically, does it happen for multi-artist albums without punctuation marks in the album name?
Created attachment 275 [details] another duplicate albums fix attempt Tried the earlier suggestion of maintaining a whitelist of album titles for which we also need a contributor match. We also search on the sortable title (with canonical casing) rather than the title itself.
1) Are the names of the duplicate albums all identical in terms of casing and spacing? -- yes 2) Is this the only album for which this happens? -- no, it seems to happen for each album that has multiple artists More specifically, does it happen for multi-artist albums without punctuation marks in the album name? -- yes, eg "Angels in the Architecture"
Ben / Bart, can you try the latest nightly, and let me know if it fixes the problems? Vidur's patch was checked in - there's a server preference that goes along with it for specifiying "Greatest Hits" albums.
that works for me now, thanks
There are 536 bugs in the database with targets of '---' that were fixed prior to new year 2006. I am setting them to targets of 6.2.1 to keep them from showing up in my queries.