SUMMARY *** 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. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. need to collect several ACDC albums and run Elisa 2. 3. 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.
Created attachment 156015 [details] album list extract
Created attachment 156016 [details] kid3 screenshot of metadata of 1 song
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 I wonder if it's out of date.
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.
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.
Oh good!