Bug 465402

Summary:	Some albums duplicated and not able to delete duplicate.
Product:	[Applications] Elisa	Reporter:	Scott <shagooserver>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	22.08.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	album list extract kid3 screenshot of metadata of 1 song terminal output of balooshow

Description Scott 2023-02-07 04:32:31 UTC

SUMMARY
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In the case of the band ACDC there is an issue where some metadata uses the name ACDC and others AC/DC which results in 2 artist collections for the same artist. The issue of getting all albums into 1 artist's collection can be accomplished by editing the file's metadata, however there does not appear to be a way to delete the duplicated entries, ie. I change the metadata from band name AC/DC to ACDC and I now have the same album appearing under 2 artists.

This could be caused by having both names names appearing somewhere in the list of tags of the various files but in the case of the album High Voltage I have checked every file's tags 1 & 2 and that is not the case. I have reset database and rescanned everything repeatedly.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. need to collect several ACDC albums and run Elisa
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OBSERVED RESULT
As discussed above and shown in the 2 attachments

EXPECTED RESULT
That when metadata is changed, it is reflected in the output of Elisa and the incorrect or old data is purged.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-29-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C35
System Version: 2.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I have given 1 example album but there are others as well.

Comment 1 Scott 2023-02-07 04:33:14 UTC

Created attachment 156015 [details]
album list extract

Comment 2 Scott 2023-02-07 04:34:06 UTC

Created attachment 156016 [details]
kid3 screenshot of metadata of 1 song

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-02-07 19:18:06 UTC

So you can verify that all affects tracks to have "AC/DC" listed in their artist tags?

Are you using the "fast native indexer" or the "scan the filesystem directly" indexer?

If you're using the native indexer, can you run `balooshow <file path>` in a terminal window on one of the tracks to see what information the indexer has for it? I wonder if it's out of date.

Comment 4 Scott 2023-02-07 22:42:09 UTC

Created attachment 156050 [details]
terminal output of balooshow

Here is the balooshow for all songs on the album which all show the correct album and band name. I use the fast native indexer in Elisa.

Comment 5 Scott 2023-02-08 00:03:24 UTC

So everything now is as it should be, close this ticket. The biggest issue to report that was behind many of the problems I think was just age, me, the albums, the poor condition of some of the metadata site information, the transition from Windows years ago and the extra metadata tags I picked up over decades. Cleaning, deleting and adding manually fixed everything.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2023-02-11 01:43:16 UTC

Oh good!