Double Artist entries

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

See, for example:

Variations of Artist Names

You can also merge artists. Ensure that you have at least one album in the library where the artist is credited Multi-select at least two artists that you want to merge Click the Merge button that should appear top right Choose the artist that shall “survive” (typically the one that has the best biography and picture) After merging, you can remove the albums (that you just added to enable the merging) from the library if you want. You can un-merge artists in Settings > Library Note that somet…

How to merge artists

You should be able to do it in Artist view. First, be aware of the unintended consequences. Jorn Lande (the individual) and his bio will merge with Jorn, the solo venture. So you’ll lose that perspective of Jorn Lande. Second, be sure to have an album from Jorn (with picture, album ‘The Duke’), Jorn (no picture, album ‘The Revenge’), and Jorn Lande (with Norwegian ‘o’, no picture, album ‘The Showdown’) all in your library. Third, go to Artist view and move down to the “Jo” section alphbetica…

There are many other threads, see, e.g., this post the the threads that are linked immediately below this post:

Existing artist initially not showing up during credit editing, but later they do - causing duplicates

I have lots of on German-language pop/rock music from smaller/“indie” labels and the quality of the predefined metadata is rather poor - in comparison to e.g. US bands where it is very usable even for many small labels. So I have to edit credits a lot and very frequently this happens (same in 1.7 and 1.8): Add credit, search for Artist Artist not found, “create artist?” > Yes Finish editing, save Search for artist name, suddenly it does find an existing and correct artist of the name, now I h…