[1476]Autoplaylist: Albums split under show art+detail #9144

[theta_wave]

Even though Mediamonkey devs resolved a major grouping bug recently (http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8946), another grouping bug remains with autoplaylists using user-defined sorting criteria under the fileview "Show Art with Details." Here's a youtube link demonstrating this bug across different musical genres and the different workarounds attempted: http://youtu.be/y1Y39rQbVuI.

Under the music node > genre, the albums are displayed fine, notice the sort order here (artwork and summary):

Music > Genre > Classical


However, under playlists > classical (an autoplaylist), the album is first displayed as split (using the autoplaylist's sorting order):

Playlists > Genre > Classical (autoplaylist)


For this album, as all other "split" albums, the following tag fields are identical between the tracks that demarcate the split: <album artist>, <artist> and <album>.



Here is the autoplaylist setting that has worked well for me since the days of mediamonkey 2.5.5:



Attempted workarounds:
1) Editing the autoplaylist sorting criteria: Replacing "Album Artist" with "Artist" under "sort order" does not fix this issue. Nor does setting the value of "Disc" -> "1" solves the problem.

2) Clicking "Artwork" or "Summary" sorting bars in the autoplaylist -> Album is displayed as one, but sorting criteria is momentarily lost. After refreshing (F5), album is seen as split again when the autoplaylist uses the user-defined sorting order.

Bottomline: This problem is not specific to the classical genre, as all genres are affected with this autoplaylist grouping bug (see video).

Video of the Problem: http://youtu.be/y1Y39rQbVuI

[Lowlander]

So does it split in the Classical Music node when sorting on Album Artist > Album > Track#? Are you saying there is a differing Disc# for tracks on the Album?

I also seem unable to reproduce. Tracks are grouped on Album, but sorted wrong as Disc# isn't used in sort.

[theta_wave]

So does it split in the Classical Music node when sorting on Album Artist > Album > Track#? Are you saying there is a differing Disc# for tracks on the Album?

I also seem unable to reproduce. Tracks are grouped on Album, but sorted wrong as Disc# isn't used in sort.

No, the disc# field was originally empty for the album I used as an example. I filled it just to see if that caused any issues, which it didn't. In fact, there does not seem to be any bias with respect to the album's genre, i.e. random albums under non-classical genres are similarly affected. Again, the two below have the same values for <album artist>, <album> and <artist> fields. <Disc#> is empty. These splits only happen when browsing through my collections under the Playlist node using autoplaylists I've made, many of which I created during Mediamonkey 2.5.5. I had to refresh one sorting setting during the mediamonkey3 transition, but they behaved like they always have until mediamonkey4.

[Lowlander]

Try File > Maintain Library with full optimization. Maybe a fixable database corruption is causing this issue. As you're sorting on Album Artist it also may be this: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8599

[theta_wave]

Try File > Maintain Library with full optimization. Maybe a fixable database corruption is causing this issue. As you're sorting on Album Artist it also may be this: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8599

It also occurs when the autoplaylist is sorted by <Album> and then <Track#>:



As for optimization, I took all of these screen captures not long after upgrading the db from MM3 -> MM4 (~1 hour). I'll try full optimization when I get back home.

[Lowlander]

Haven't you reported this before?

[theta_wave]

Try File > Maintain Library with full optimization. Maybe a fixable database corruption is causing this issue. As you're sorting on Album Artist it also may be this: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8599

Maintain library will full optimization did not work. Sorting the classical autoplaylist by artist instead of album artist did not work. According the MP3Tag, all of the albums I used as examples above have their <Album Artist> field filled with the values seen in Summary under the view "show art with details".

Here's a debug log from selecting the autoplaylist Soundtrack (Games) where the first album is displayed as split:

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00013895   14.72482491   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT IDFilter FROM Playlists WHERE IDPlaylist = 105    
00013896   14.72505760   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 307.   
00013897   14.72512531   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013898   14.72523785   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 103.   
00013899   14.72550488   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013900   14.72569561   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 192.   
00013901   14.72638988   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013902   14.72646523   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 35.   
00013903   14.72662163   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013904   14.72668934   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 23.   
00013905   14.72710514   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT View FROM PlaylistViews WHERE IDView=?    
00013906   14.72729397   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 232.   
00013907   14.72816181   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums groups generated   
00013908   14.73053932   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Rows computed   
00013909   14.73062801   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums selected   
00013910   14.73069286   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - end   
00013911   14.73523903   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT IDFilter FROM Playlists WHERE IDPlaylist = 105    
00013912   14.73539257   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 156.   
00013913   14.73561573   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013914   14.73569298   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 32.   
00013915   14.73589611   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013916   14.73597050   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 35.   
00013917   14.73641396   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013918   14.73648453   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 26.   
00013919   14.73663998   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013920   14.73670769   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 22.   
00013921   14.73713017   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT View FROM PlaylistViews WHERE IDView=?    
00013922   14.73720169   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 32.   
00013923   14.73764992   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT IDFilter FROM Playlists WHERE IDPlaylist = 105    
00013924   14.73775291   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 84.   
00013925   14.73784828   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013926   14.73791218   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 24.   
00013927   14.73806763   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013928   14.73813248   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 23.   
00013929   14.73856354   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013930   14.73862934   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 25.   
00013931   14.73878384   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013932   14.73886585   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 25.   
00013933   14.73928833   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT View FROM PlaylistViews WHERE IDView=?    
00013934   14.73935795   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 28.   
00013935   14.74863434   [856] TryLoadDirectlyFromDBAndCache called for track I:\Soundtrack - Game\.hack G.U. GAME MUSIC O.S.T. 2 [Limited Edition] (2007)\101. The Far Side of the Steep Mountains ~Opening Loop Demo2~.flac   
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00013965   15.24218941   [856] Thread 'FillingThread' is going to callback   
00013966   15.24395084   [856] SortAlbumListPreserveSelection called   
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00013971   15.31980515   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums generated   
00013972   15.31988907   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums sorted   
00013973   15.31999111   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT IDFilter FROM Playlists WHERE IDPlaylist = 105    
00013974   15.32014370   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 166.   
00013975   15.32021332   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013976   15.32028580   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 31.   
00013977   15.32045364   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013978   15.32053089   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 37.   
00013979   15.32096863   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00013980   15.32103729   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 26.   
00013981   15.32119274   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00013982   15.32125759   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 21.   
00013983   15.32167530   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT View FROM PlaylistViews WHERE IDView=?    
00013984   15.32174778   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 35.   
00013985   15.32397270   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums groups generated   
00013986   15.32795429   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Rows computed   
00013987   15.32799053   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums selected   
00013988   15.32803726   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - end   
00013989   15.51522923   [856] TryLoadDirectlyFromDBAndCache called for track I:\Soundtrack - Game\.hack G.U. GAME MUSIC O.S.T. 2 [Limited Edition] (2007)\102. Sunny Desert Plains.flac   
00013990   15.51569080   [856] TryLoadDirectlyFromDBAndCache - force load from cache C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\MMCache340662283_1\AZZV3Z18JDABYYFA - 24656.bmp   
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00014025   16.04915619   [856] SortAlbumListPreserveSelection called   
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00014029   16.11005211   [856] TAlbumArtViewsManager::PrepareAlbumArtList - end   
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00014031   16.11015892   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums sorted   
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00014033   16.11079597   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 677.   
00014034   16.11112785   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00014035   16.11159134   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 607.   
00014036   16.11176872   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00014037   16.11196899   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 49.   
00014038   16.11246109   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM Filters WHERE ID=?    
00014039   16.11267853   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 281.   
00014040   16.11285973   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT ID, Name, View FROM Views WHERE ID = ?    
00014041   16.11292839   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 27.   
00014042   16.11335945   [856] 5432 DB open SQL: SELECT View FROM PlaylistViews WHERE IDView=?    
00014043   16.11355209   [856] 5432 DB lock finished, took 233.   
00014044   16.13031197   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums groups generated   
00014045   16.13486862   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Rows computed   
00014046   16.14567757   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - Albums selected   
00014047   16.15303802   [856] TAlbumArtViewController::PrepareAlbumArtList - end   
00014048   16.16632080   [856] TAlbumArtViewController.SelectSongs - Begin   
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[theta_wave]

Any other Gold/Lifetime users have this problem when viewing their albums under autoplaylists?

[nohitter151]

Any other Gold/Lifetime users have this problem when viewing their albums under autoplaylists?

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=64001&p=329494&hilit=order#p329494

[theta_wave]

Any other Gold/Lifetime users have this problem when viewing their albums under autoplaylists?

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=64001&p=329494&hilit=order#p329494

No, the problem still exists under 1470.

I made a screencast of the problem trying a variety of earlier suggestions such as manually editing the tags in Mediamonkey, etc. Please view the vid at 480p or larger. Each time I used a suggestion the end result is the same: The album is still displayed as split. On the last example, an album is grouped fine in one autoplaylist but is displayed as split in another. All of the sorting criteria from the autoplaylist advanced tab is shown. I never had this problem in my extensive use of Mediamonkey (beginning at 2.5.5) until the release of version 4.

http://youtu.be/y1Y39rQbVuI

[delavagus]

I am using 1470 (with Gold).

I too have noticed Auto-playlists doing some kooky things with 4. (Under Art With Details view.) For instance, I have a "Recently Added" auto-playlist. I sort by Date Added (Z... A) and Album (A... Z). But sometimes the albums are split weirdly, e.g., track 1 taking up its own slot, the rest of the album immediately below, taking up a new slot. The problem seems to come and go, however.

Also -- and this may be a bit off-topic; if so, I apologize -- I've noticed (and posted about it regarding an earlier iteration) that, on my computer, multi-disc albums (in which each disc shares the same album name and is distinguished using the Disc# tag) sorted by Path are split into separate entries when viewed in Art With Details mode. This never happened for me in any version of MM prior to 4.

I find it unfortunate. Separating multi-disc albums by disc is a concession to CD's and CD-ripping and should not, IMO, play any part in how albums show up in MM -- nor did it prior to 4.

A couple things I discovered in the thread I started on this topic:

(1) Not everyone has this problem, which perplexes me. (Could it be a problem on my end? But... how?)

(2) I can correct the problem by clicking the "Path" field once (inverting the display order). Then the multi-disc albums only take up one slot. I can then click the "Path" field again, righting the display order, and all is well with the world -- until I move to another folder (or reselect the same folder).

[Lowlander]

Double post: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=64035#p328640

Please don't: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40381

[delavagus]

Not a double-post -- or not entirely. I was also responding to the this:

Any other Gold/Lifetime users have this problem when viewing their albums under autoplaylists?

[theta_wave]

wow, another user has this problem sorting under advanced autoplaylists. At least I'm not going crazy

[theta_wave]

Bug still present in 1476.