[Bug 319494] [NEW] Multiple Listings for Same Album

[Jmadero]

Public bug reported:

Hi All,

I have included an image for this one. My mix cd's (bought from stores)
are coming up as multiple listings in the playlist for Albums despite
them being the same album. The image shows two albums listed twice each
(not songs listed twice, it's like the songs are split despite being
same album.)

** Affects: amarok (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

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[Jmadero]

** Attachment added: "Amarok.jpg"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21496140/Amarok.jpg

[bittajam]

Yes, I confirm.
I've got the same thing.
Some albums looks fine, and some (without any logic) - just like that.

Amarok 1.4 gave me the possibility to drag and drop such things from one
album to another, but Amarok 2 doesn't provide such feature, wich would
be very useful.

[Robin]

Same here, the collection is showing multiples of the SAME album as seen
in attached pic.

** Attachment added: "Multiples of same album"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28071003/collection.png

[Robin]

I suspect that it is sorting by album AND ARTIST as seen in my attached pic.
It shows 3 groups of the same album name.
The differentiating factor seems to be the artists for each group.

But really it should be just 1 group.

** Attachment added: "1 album, 3 groups, 3 different artists, in playlist"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28071124/playlist.png

[Robin]

You will also end up with many Unknown albums.

** Attachment added: "many-unknown-albums.png"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28071179/many-unknown-albums.png

[Jmadero]

I've actually went back to 1.4 almost completely because of this problem
:( I also have a few wish list items posted, hoping that in the next few
months 2* is a bit more stable and consistent

[Andrew Ash]

You guys are right, there are issues with various artist support now in
Amarok 2. Luckily, the developers are aware of the problem and
discussions are being made about the best way to handle the issue [1]
[2].

>From the screenshots posted it looks like Amarok is splitting the
compilation album up into each of the artists that took part in the
album. Does this look like a fair assessment?

To move forward with getting better various artists support, let's make
sure we're all on the same page. What version of Amarok were you
running here, Jmadero? (apt-cache policy amarok) Make sure you're fully
updated and we'll try to get a coherent message about what the problem
is to the upstream developers.

Thanks!

[1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2009-March/008128.html
[2] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2008-December/007397.html

** Changed in: amarok (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete

[Andrew Ash]

** Summary changed:

- Multiple Listings for Same Album

+ Various Artists issue: Multiple Listings for Same Album

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Various Artists issue: Multiple Listings for Same Album

[Jmadero]

sorry for the delayed response. I've been out of town the last couple of
weeks and am just now getting things back together in the next couple of
days so I'll be able to get all the requested information. Thank you
much!

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Various Artists issue: Multiple Listings for Same Album

[Jmadero]

I'm back on track so here is the information you requested:

apt-cache policy amarok
amarok:
Installed: 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1
Candidate: 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1
Version table:
*** 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

As for your question about if it's separating based on artist...I'm finding it really hard to determine exactly what it is doing. In my case I have the Now That's What I Call Music series (about 10 of them at least). About 80% of them are listing under various artists under the correct album name and everything, the other 20% is listing under the artist instead but the order is Artist -> Album (which is the "Now That's....") -> Song Title

So, it's not being consistent at all which is strange as all of these
are the same cd series.

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Various Artists issue: Multiple Listings for Same Album

[Andrew Ash]

** Summary changed:

- Various Artists issue: Multiple Listings for Same Album
+ Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

** Description changed:

+ SUMMARY:
+
+ This is a metabug for tracking the various artists issue in Amarok 2 on
+ Ubuntu. The issue (in short) is this: Amarok does not group tracks from
+ a multiple-artist album together. This causes a single album (for
+ example, the Now That's What I Call Music series) to appear as multiple
+ albums, each with one track by a particular artist. Expected behavior
+ (as occurred in Amarok 1.4), is that these types of albums will be
+ grouped together in the album view.
+
+
+ ORIGINAL REPORT:
+

Hi All,

I have included an image for this one. My mix cd's (bought from stores)
are coming up as multiple listings in the playlist for Albums despite
them being the same album. The image shows two albums listed twice each
(not songs listed twice, it's like the songs are split despite being
same album.)

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Andrew Ash]

** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #199483
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199483

** Also affects: amarok via
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199483
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: amarok
Status: Unknown => New

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[neoeno]

I have discovered a workaround. Amarok only seems to get confused with
compilations if the tracks are in different folders. The procedure goes
thus:

- Click 'Show Under Various Artists' on every duplicated album until they all appear under Various Artists (as in Robin's image)
- On one of the albums (they should all be complete albums), click 'Organise Files'.
- Update collection.

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[neoeno]

Seems there may be a bit of confusion regarding what is going on here.
Maybe another explanation will help:

I note that a compilation album has been split up into individual
artists, rather than being grouped under Various Artists. I right click
one of the albums, and click 'Show Under Various Artists'.

All the tracks in that album _of the artist selected_ now appear under
Various Artists. All other tracks remain under the individual artists.

So I go to each of the artists, click 'Show Under Various Artists' for
the album.

The result is that we have as many duplicate listings of the compilation
under Various Artists as there were artists when the album was split up
into artists. All of these duplicate albums contain all of the tracks in
the album.

If I Rescan Collection, then the compilation returns to its original
state, with the compilation distributed over many artists.

(All of this depending, I hypothesize, as per my workaround, on the
folder in which the tracks are located. If all of the tracks are located
in the same folder, everything works as it should. If not, the above
situation occurs.)

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Jonathan Thomas]

** Changed in: amarok (Ubuntu)

Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

** Changed in: amarok (Ubuntu)

Importance: Undecided => Low

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Michael Leigsnering]

I can confirm this bug exactly as neoeno described it. His workaround worked for me as well.
But the behavior of amarok should be change, so that no workaround is needed.

My amarok version:
Version 2.2.0 (KDE 4.3.2)

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Ivan Vasin]

this issue was reported at [1] and claimed to be "RESOLVED as FIXED"
with amarok-2.1.1. hopefully it will be reopened and really fixed soon.

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172953

** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #172953
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172953

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Jmadero]

I've gone back to Amarok 1.4 because of the issues with various artists
in 2...the issues were quite a bit bigger than I thought:

1. Grouping is wrong as described in this post

2. Sometimes if I mark an album as "remove from various artists" amarok
either refuses to remove it, or removes it but upon restart they are
back in various artists

this is one of many many bugs that I've encountered in Amarok 2, so this
is just one of the contributing factors for me to go back to 1.4 which
has always been solid for me.

Other issues related to various artists:

With my own mixes that show up in Various Artists I can't get wiki or
lyrics but using the same exact files in 1.4 I get both, no problem at
all (tags are all right)

Can't display things under various artists AND under their own artists,
it's one or the other, it'd be nice to have the option to have both as
sometimes I want to see my album but sometimes I want to go to the
artists and see the files there

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: amarok
Status: New => Confirmed

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Robert Persson]

Why has this been assigned a low priority? A music player should enable
you to effortlessly browse your collection and choose albums to listen
to. This behaviour makes that impossible, as should be clear from the
comments of those who have already said they will be going back to
version 1.4. Speaking for myself, I have just re-upgraded, having gone
back to 1.4 some time ago, and I'm starting to regret doing so because
of this.

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Jmadero]

If you look at their list of bugs you'll see that all in all...this one
is relatively minor. They are more concerned with amarok crashing with
sig faults and then I know they are working on some feature requests
that are pretty critical (such as playlist support for mp3 players, MTP
devices, etc...), unfortunately there aren't a lot of developers so they
have to prioritize and, despite me agreeing with you that this is
annoying, it's not critical and the music player is still functional
with the bug...

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Samkit]

I also got this issue when I added new albums.
But for me it got resolved when I updated full collection from "Setting -> Configure Amarok -> Collection -> Fully Rescan entire collection".

I am using "Amarok 2.3.0".

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[fundriver]

I also can confirm this bug and im actually like "wtf?" that this bug
only has a low importance. Actually me and somebody else dont use Amarok
anymore because of this bug - because the sorting as Various Artist that
now doesnt work anymore is a key-future for me.

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Tracks in Various Artists Albums aren't grouped together

[Wojciech Ryrych]

When 1st level in local collection is artist, the second album, the one with various artists should be grouped as a one album.
Confirmed with newest Amarok (today's appearance in Kubuntu repositories) 2.3.2.

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** Changed in: amarok
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Fuujuhi]

Just installed Amarok 2.4 from lucid-backports, and afaict the "single
album / multiple artists" problem is solved.

I only had to delete the current playlist + do full collection rescan.
Now all tracks belonging to the same album are listed together. Also in
the playlist there is an additional column giving the track artist if it
is not the same for all.

[Tuomas-1]

This seems to have been fixed with commit
78415dfb1d44c59a0f53748071ce57b794abd83a in June 2013. Closing.

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