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Your database is obviously corrupt. Entries in alphabetic vs. album view return different resultsnt

Composers that are not shown in the ALPHABETIC view do show up in the ALBUM view. How did you guys managed to do that?

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I see.

So if you look at the Songs Tab for the letter "I" on The Beatles' page, you see a list of song titles, some with composers, and some without.

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032#songs

This is because of the specific way we create what we call a Song and what we call a Performance.

Our "Song" data is pretty convoluted. From our data provider we receive tracks attached to albums. These are each individually listed as the song title, the performer, and the composer(s).

From this info, we create a "Song" entity (which is the text string of the title + the composers) and we also create a "Performance" entity (the now-created Song ID + performer names). So "I Am the Walrus" written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney is a "Song" and "I Am the Walrus" performed by The Beatles is a "Performance."

Along these same lines, "I Am the Walrus" performed by Frank Zappa would be the same "Song," but a different "Performance"

When you're seeing items in that list that don't have a composer, that is because the information we have available to us doesn't indicate that it is the same "Song" (we know it is "I Am the Walrus" performed by The Beatles, but since a budget-line compilation or soundtrack may not have had the composer information, that does not go into our database).

So we don't list the composers for that particular "Performance" of that particular "Song" in that view.

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DD
 
 
Hi Zac,
 
let me 1st say that ALLMUSIC is THE encyclopedia of music,
 
Now to my feedback: the proper term for the problem, if my memory serves my right, is "referential integrity". I'm currently adding missing tags (composer )to my >700k audio tracks which has genres like blues, rock, jazz, ..
My usual approach is to look up missing information in the alphabetic view of the respective artist. As you know, not all titles show the composer. Months ago I found out that when switching to the album view, the composer information can sometimes be found there.
This is not a rare occurrence. I find this behaviour with pretty much every artist's entries,
 
If you think it helps, I could make screenshots next time.
 
Have a good day
Dieter Mörike aka Donald Duck (not THE Donald!!!)
 
BTW, I had the following problem replying to yout msg:
The response from the remote server was:

550 No such user

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Hello Donald. I've loved your work for decades.

Can you please give us more information on what you are seeing?
Which page is this happening?

Please send us a URL or webpage where you are experiencing this odd behavior.

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