Ticket #693 (closed bug: fixed)
library sorts out of order and repeats sections
| Reported by: | atfrase | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Interface | Version: | 0.5 |
| Keywords: | library sort column duplicate mis-order | Cc: |
Description
I have a library of 4457 songs (by 955 artists, in 172 albums). When I select the entire library (the '955 artists (4457)' top heading in the Artists panel, using Artist/Album browser view), and then try to sort the library using the column headers in the listing, the results are wrong. Chunks of the output will be in the correct sorted order, but scrolling down, previous chunks will then repeat themselves out of order. This is true for every column I tried (Title, Artist and Album).
It doesn't seem to happen for any subset of my library (one artist, or one album), so it may only affect the 'everything' output. Then again, the internally-consistent chunks in the incorrect output are larger than any other single subset I can easily select, so maybe it just depends on the size of the listing.
Attached are screenshots: in the first, note the entire Listen! window, version 0.5 (running on Ubuntu 7.04). The Artist column is sorted-ascending, but there are L's after N's -- yet, after the L's begin, they are in order relative to eachother (and these L's were already listed up above the N's where they belong).
In the second: the A albums start repeating in the middle of an E album.
In the third: C songs appear after D songs.
This may seem like a minor problem, but really, sorting a list shouldn't duplicate entries in it. Even if my library database somehow got corrupted and has duplicates (I did try removing every track and re-importing the entire library, to no avail), the duplicates should at least be sorted in order. In my case, I noticed this while trying to put together a mix CD: when trying to scroll through all my music, entire sections repeat themselves, which makes a 'full sweep' really tedious.
