Bug 433781 - Albums with the same name from different artists both appear under both artists in Elisa
Summary: Albums with the same name from different artists both appear under both artis...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: Elisa
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 20.12.2
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthieu Gallien
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Reported: 2021-03-01 09:49 UTC by edrics
Modified: 2023-04-16 15:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Each picture shows an artist's discography under "Artists". All three homonymous albums from different artists appear under all three of the artists' list of albums. (558.92 KB, image/jpeg)
2021-03-01 09:49 UTC, edrics
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Description edrics 2021-03-01 09:49:03 UTC
Created attachment 136276 [details]
Each picture shows an artist's discography under "Artists". All three homonymous albums from different artists appear under all three of the artists' list of albums.

If two albums from different artists have the same title, both albums will appear under both artists' names. For instance: "Infinity" by Journey and "Infinity" by Devin Townsend both appear under Artist→Journey and under Artist→Devin Townsend

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have two homonymous albums by different artists in Elisa's collection 

OBSERVED RESULT
Both albums appear under both artists' discographies, under "Artists" and under "Genres→Artist"

EXPECTED RESULT
Only the album by that artist should appear in their discography

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Plasma
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21 and previous
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79 and previous
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
In the screenshot examples there is a third album named "Infinity" by a third artist, Planetarium. The same behaviour is displayed.
Comment 1 Jack Hill 2023-04-10 20:12:42 UTC
Does this still happen? I just copied a file and changed the artist and album artist tags, and couldn't reproduce the issue.
Comment 2 edrics 2023-04-16 15:53:09 UTC
(In reply to Jack Hill from comment #1)
> Does this still happen? I just copied a file and changed the artist and
> album artist tags, and couldn't reproduce the issue.

Well I did find out that the issue only happened because I did not make use of the "Album Artist" tag field, and once I added it to all my collection the problem disappeared. Now, after seeing your comment I tried seeing if it still happened by adding two songs that would cause the issue, but Elisa's way of adding songs is really not consistent (when scanning for new music things rarely appear until a complete rescan at boot) and I could not get the songs to appear at all... Granted, I haven't tried for too long, but in case you can also test without the "Album Artist" tag to check.
Comment 3 edrics 2023-04-16 15:56:01 UTC
Also, even if there is an easy workaround I would still consider it a bug: Album artist or not, there is no reason to put albums with different Artists together just because the albums have the same name.