Bug 202360

Created attachment 35803 [details]
Screenshot of collection browser showing repeated entries

Created attachment 35804 [details]
One repeated album expanded showing different artists

I can't reproduce it with 2.2-git.
See screenshot: http://imagebin.ca/view/uPGiPLwt.html

This bug is not fixed in Amarok 2.2 :(
I installed Amarok 2.2 on KDE 4.3.1 on Fedora 11.
I deleted my ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc file and the ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok directory and started Amarok. Added my music directories, and the collection browser had the same problem.

Other info: My music files have ID3v2.4 tags, added using Kid3/Taglib.
The collection browser is sorted with 'Album' as the first level and 'Artist' as second level and 'None' as third level.
If I select 'None' for the second level also, the duplication problem still exists.

Seeing the same.
Had to remove ~/.kde/share/config/amarok* and ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok.
-Seems- to be OK now.
(Though this fix doesn't seem to work for the OP)

- Gilboa

I've tried everything - quitting Amarok, logging out and back in, deleting the config files and the apps/amarok directory.
The problem still exists. It's 100% reproducible.

Have the same problem with Amarok 2.2 on OpenSuSE 11.1 and KDE 4.3.2, even after removing all Amarok stuff in ~/.kde4.

One observation: Albums in one directory show up in various artists properly. Other directories, containing several songs with several albums are shown in the regular Artist/Album/Song view. If I mark these songs with "show under various artists" (hope the translation is good enough, since I use the German localization), these songs end up with the behavior mentioned in this bug.

This results in a very long list of albums under various artists, every change in a song causes Amarok to freeze for ~4 minutes to rebuild the navigation bar.

Greetings, Jens.

Can somebody reproduce this with current git?

I too have several songs with different albums / artists in the same directory.

Another way to reproduce (hopefully):
I have 3 songs under "Various Artists" - select them and give them a new album name. All 3 songs now show up under "Artist/Album/Song" and are spread through the collection (due to different artist names). Then applying "Show under Various Artists" leads to have the new album three times under "Various Artists", each containing the same 3 songs.

Syam and Jens, you both talk about the current Amarok 2.2-git of today?

No - I'm talking about Amarok 2.2.0-38.3 from the KDE:KDE4:Playground/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop OpenSuSE Build Service.

Hm, see my question in comment #8, which I repeat here: can somebody reproduce this with current Amarok 2.2-git?

(In reply to comment #11)
> Syam and Jens, you both talk about the current Amarok 2.2-git of today?

No. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to compile Amarok from sources (I don't have a KDE build system on this machine - never tried that too).

If you see the first report, the bug was reported for 2.1.1, and then Mikko (see comment #3) said he couldn't reproduce it with 2.2-git. Two months later, when 2.2 was released, I found that the bug still existed. So, if no major changes to the playlist/database have happened post 2.2 release, this one probably is still live.

Since Amarok 2.2.1 is around the corner, could you please test again with that version?

(In reply to comment #15)
I'm updating to Amarok 2.2.1 from kde-testing repository (I'm on Fedora 11). It pulls in Qt updates too and this is quite heavy. I'll let you know once I've finished installation.

(In reply to comment #15)
> Since Amarok 2.2.1 is around the corner, could you please test again with that
> version?

I installed Amarok 2.2.1 from the OpenSuse Build Service.
First start showed the same problems. I rescanned the entire collection and most of the duplicates were gone. Still there were some artifacts like empty duplicates (clicking on the + sign at the left showed no contents). Restarting Amarok even solved that problem.

So from my point of view the issue is solved and Amarok again did a big step towards the functionality and stability of the 1.4 version.

Thank you very much for your effort and good work.

I installed Amarok 2.2.1 from kde-testing repo of Fedora 11. Deleted ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok directory and config/amarokrc file. Started Amarok, added folders to collection, scanned, exited Amarok and started again.

*The problem remains*.

But now I know how to reproduce. Albums that have their own folder (i.e. all tracks of that album in a separate folder) work fine - irrespective of the artists. But if a folder contains tracks from two albums, I get duplicate listings in Amarok playlist for those albums - one entry for each artist, as described in the original report. I have tried deleting the amarok directory and amrokrc file and re-scanned. The problem is 100% reproducible.

Sorry for the confusion, I also still have the problem.
Rescanning the collection cleaned up my "Various Artists" tree, but cleared the "Show under Various Artists" flag, which lead to move the songs back into the regular Artist/Album tree. Setting the "Show under Various Artists" flag again leads again to the duplicates.

At the first glance it seems I have the same problem as Syam - multiple artists with one album in one directory seems to work fine (and show up in the "Various Artists" tree immediately after the rescan), multiple artists with multiple albums in one directory show up in the Artists/Album tree and lead to duplicates as soon as the "Show under Various Artists" is set.

Thanks for the quick answer. Changing version, then

I wish people would stop mixing up bugs. One of you seems to be talking about the collection browser. The other seems to be talking about the playlist.

That's my mistake & I apologize. The problem is with the *Collection Browser* and NOT the playlist. The duplicate entries are observed in the collection browser (as posted in the original report).

Created attachment 38508 [details]
bug illustration

i just wanted to add myself to the list here. It's really strange, with some albums it happens, with some not. For example in the screenshot i submitted you can she the "How i met your mother" album which works fine, and the "How i met your mother Season 2" album which is horribly broken. You cant see the season 3 and 4 which work perfectly too.
The file structure of all those albums is exactly the same (a folder containing one album).

Pointless to have the same bug opened twice, merging.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192029 ***

(In reply to comment #24)
> Pointless to have the same bug opened twice, merging.

As long as you're sure they are (caused by) the same problem & not just reducing the number of open reports ;-)

I hope that's caused by the same root cause. My problem is caused without renaming albums, it's simply a re-scan and move to various artists.

Btw: I don't allow Amarok, to change the directory/file layout on my disk.

I've got this problem too, very annoying. Amarok 2.2.1, KDE 4.3.3, Fedora 12. I have the collections sorted by Genre, then Album. Some compilation albums don't group together when there are different artists under the same album name; but some do. I wish there was a "compilation" tag like in iTunes. I don't want to retag the artist as "Various" and lose that info.

This bug exists for Amarok 2.3.2 (KDE 4.5.3, Fedora 14).