exaile 3.3.2 does not find certain arists

[fberger]

For at least one artist, exaile 3.3.2 (vanilla, from website) does not find the songs when entering part of the artist's name into the search box.

Attached is an image with three screenshots. Note that the artist does not show up when searching for part of the artist's name. When searching for part of the album's name there is no problem.

Artist name is plain UTF-8 with no fancy characters in it.

I have uploaded a song for testing purposes to

http://pub.florian-berger.de/audio/01-Animus_Vox.mp3

Expected behaviour is that the artist should show up in the search results when part of the name has been typed.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Interesting. I too have also ran into this behavior, except it was at the 'search' in the main playlist. I was able to add your file to my playlist and searches for it work without any problems.

I feel that this points to a database corruption of some kind, perhaps. Going to be difficult to track down, for sure.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Found the bug. What I think is happening is Exaile is grouping files into 'compilations' by default, and so when you search for artist it searchs the compilation field instead. This seems quite broken, unless I'm missing something.

Another way this bug manifests itself is when you sort the files in a playlist that contains . This is definitely unexpected behavior, as the compilation is not actually displayed to the user, and so the sort appears to be incorrect.

I'm going to play with this, but I think I'll end up removing the default behavior of sorting/searching by the compilation, as it doesn't seem to serve any obvious function. It's not even clear to me how compilations are actually even used in Exaile.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Set compilations to False everywhere... so it's stored in the DB now, but not actually used. There's a note in FUTURE to remove it at some point anyways.

Fixed in trunk @ r4417, 3.3.x @ r4341.

[fberger (fberger-fbmd)]

Thanks! I'll test it as soon as I find a minute.

[fberger (fberger-fbmd)]

The commit fixes it for me. Thanks.