LMS artist conflation despite different musicbrainz identifiers

[audiomuze]

May I ask how long a full scan takes on your system? And what that system was?

I’ll get the specs in the morning, it’s not a high spec machine, but more than does the job for a very snappy UI on LMS/Material. From memory a clear and rescan incl artist pics etc took about 7h, but the tunes scan itself took nowhere near that time.

[slartibartfast]

I’ll get the specs in the morning, it’s not a high spec machine, but more than does the job for a very snappy UI on LMS/Material. From memory a clear and rescan incl artist pics etc took about 7h, but the tunes scan itself took nowhere near that time.

How many tracks are in your library? I can see why you would want to avoid a full rescan.

[audiomuze]

May I ask how long a full scan takes on your system? And what that system was?

Asus H110I-PLUS motherboard, i5-7600T CPU @ 2.80GHz, 16GB 2400 MHz RAM, Arch Linux running headless. Serves LMS, Navidrome (for on the road listening onlly b/c LMS doesn't have a loca device playback capability) and Jellyfin for video. Pretty sure that the audio scan itself is done pretty quickly, the time thief is artist image retrieval. Would be great if Clear & Rescan didn't kill artist images but rather sought them on disk first and then went out to the net if and only if there isn't a local image.

mherger, when one does a regular update scan, does
trigger a lookup for all including those that already have artist pics or does it only look to fill in the blanks?

[audiomuze]

How many tracks are in your library? I can see why you would want to avoid a full rescan.

Way too many. Seems among the larger mherger has encountered.

[mherger]

I'd say your collection is among the top 2 I know of . How did you configure the MAI artwork lookup options? Configured correctly it would store all pictures in a folder from where you can edit/remove/replace them. And the plugin would re-use those whenever possible. So that shouldn't be too slow. But with a collection your size there might be quite a few artists it can't find artwork for. In that case you can have the plugin create a file flagging missing artwork. Which would allow you to replace with something of your choice.

[audiomuze]

I wouldn’t be surprised if that change needed a full wipe and rescan.

So I can confirm that moving the offending album out of the library and running a rescan, followed by adding it back and rescanning again serves only to put it back where it doesn't belong.

I'll reinstate the test lib to check that its behaviour is identical and that a clear and rescan does its thing.

I'm guessing though that a SQL update of the relevant records should get to the same outcome faster? I'll take a peek at the lay of the land in the test lib to see what's required.