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Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist column

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:25 am
by ohyeah
I looked for similar threads but found nothing similar to my query. Supposedly I have these 2 songs in a database. (Tagged using mp3tag).

Title: Air
Artist: Anna\\Betty\\Chelly\\Diane

Title: Break
Artist: Sphere\\Anna\\Betty\\Chelly\\Diane

Air is sung by 4 people. Break is sung by 4 people under the name 'Sphere'. Taking a look at the artist column within the Column Browser, Anna has two separate entries.

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This problem becomes much more rampant when dealing with artist singing solo and within a group. The position of the artist's name seems to matter a great deal when sorting by artist. Is there anyway to merge the artist together?

Re: Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist co

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:55 am
by Lowlander
Which version of MediaMonkey and does the Artist have a single or also multiple entries in the Artist node in the Media Tree?

Re: Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist co

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:35 pm
by ohyeah
I am using version 4.1.9.1764. Within the Media Tree column, there are 2 'Betty', 2 'Chelly', 2 'Diane' but only 1 'Anna'.

Re: Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist co

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:44 am
by Lowlander
It sounds like a database corruption may be the problem. Running File > Maintain Library with complete optimization checked may resolve it.

Re: Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist co

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:33 pm
by Guest
I ran 'Maintain Library' with full optimization but the duplicated artists are still there

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Re: Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist co

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:52 am
by Lowlander
You can offer the database to support for analysis: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ets/Submit

I'm afraid you'll need to start with a clean database to get rid of the problem.

Re: Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist co

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:56 pm
by AlanH
I'm No expert but I cant help but notice in your screenshot Its showing ¥ as the separator, could this be related?

Re: Artists in Multiple Artists appearing twice in Artist co

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:08 am
by Ludek
Will be fixed as http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=13068 , there are unexpected UTF-8 BOM chars causing the duplications