Something is amiss with the Bruno Walter metadata

[EvilGnome6]

When you perform a search for “Bruno Walter”, it does list him in the autocomplete list but the Top result instead shows “New York Philharmonic”.

It does list albums in my collection featuring Bruno Walter:

But if you go to an album and then click through to the Bruno Walter artist page, it doesn’t list any albums in my collection, but only two Recommended albums:

[Niccolo_Terzi (Niccolò Terzi)]

same, or worse here. looking for bruno walter i get

…portishead and thomas schippers in the results.
then, clicking on (composer?) Bruno Walter, i get:

… missing the only one album i have.

this is not a problem in metadata. it’s a BUG in new 1.8. look at another post of mine about Horowitz

Strange problem with artist shown only as composer

Here is another example with the same problem. Philip Glass: [image] [image] Glass is considered as a composer… so there is not a “Main albums” list, but a “Composed by” list that mixes all the albums, the ones where Glass is a primary artist, but also the ones where someone has played some music by Glass. I don’t know… it looks like a mess. But at least here i get (i think) all the albums where Glass is composer OR performer. in the case of Horowitz, on the other hand, as he has composed o…

[Akimo]

I’m not seeing the bug, when I do a find for Bruno Walter, I get him (not the NYPhil), and clicking on his name gives me the expected list of Bruno Walter albums. This suggests there might be a metadata thing to this after all.

[EvilGnome6]

I’m seeing the same issue with Harold Farberman. I have one album in my collection but it isn’t listed under the composer:

When I click on Discography, The collection button doesn’t light up as if there are no albums in my collection.

And just to make sure I’m looking at the right artist, I clicked through to the artist page from the album in my collection.