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Bug 752515 - Similar Album Names By Different Artists Combined Into One Album
Similar Album Names By Different Artists Combined Into One Album
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-music
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-music-maint
gnome-music-maint
: 701065 766743 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 766579
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-07-17 01:06 UTC by Mark Weiman
Modified: 2016-11-21 15:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Mark Weiman 2015-07-17 01:06:11 UTC 
When you have two or more albums that have the same name, they are combined into one album into Music.

For example, if I have one album named "Cool Album" by the artist "Foo" and another album also named "Cool Album" by the artist "Bar" they will be under one artist (chosen one unknown) in the Artist tab and one album in the Album tab with the same artist from the Artist tab under the name of tha album.

I can also see a problem with compilation albums with various artists, so perhaps something should be implemented with that.

MORE INFORMATION

Files used on my machine are all ogg vorbis files.
Comment 1 Corrado Trevisani 2015-07-29 09:15:34 UTC 
I can confirm this bug. Many Artists have albums called "Greatest Hits" and I find all the songs inside the "Greatest hit" folder of the first Artist in alphabetical order.
Comment 2 Corrado Trevisani 2015-07-29 09:23:10 UTC 
this is a pic http://imageshack.com/a/img537/3963/8NHccE.png

there's GunsAndRoses, RedHotChiliPeppers, Blink182 all in the same album
Comment 3 Mark Weiman 2015-07-30 20:54:03 UTC 
Issue is present in 3.17.4.
Comment 4 Mark Weiman 2015-11-17 02:37:43 UTC 
Updated to 3.18.x as problem still exists in 3.18.2.
Comment 5 Marinus Schraal 2016-05-16 09:37:43 UTC 
This is somewhat inverse related to bug #734265 .

Point is that albums are differentiated on their title only (in tracker terms on nmm:musicAlbum and titles are not so unique. So we probably should also incorporate some other identifiers in the specific queries without breaking album grouping as a whole. The extended problem is that it will break nmm:albumArtist tagging, since the tracker:id for the nmm:musicAlbum is one and the same for all artists involved in such a non-uniquely named album.

Can you by the way test with the latest stable 3.20? The queries have been somewhat reworked and might already have solved some of the issues.
Comment 6 Mark Weiman 2016-05-16 13:48:06 UTC 
It is still present in 3.20.2 in Arch Linux's [extra].
Comment 7 Marinus Schraal 2016-05-21 08:11:24 UTC 
*** Bug 766743 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Pavel Antonov 2016-09-14 01:47:35 UTC 
I have investigated this bug. It is due to grouping in album and artist queries only by album not by album and artist.
Comment 9 Marinus Schraal 2016-11-11 12:32:28 UTC 
This should be tackled mostly with #773697 & #774260 . Please test.
Comment 10 Marinus Schraal 2016-11-11 12:33:12 UTC 
*** Bug 701065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Marinus Schraal 2016-11-21 15:37:15 UTC 
This is now available in tracker 1.11.1 & music 3.23.2 . You might have to -re-index your music files.

Please test and report issues fresh.