I took a chance and temporarily re-named "The Funky Butts" to "-". This did not change any of the playlists but it does make The FuMP albums on the home page NOT say The Funky Butts any more. The actual 3 songs by The Funky Butts are now by "-" (Artist Id # 8788). The earlier mess is still there, only the name has been changed.

Please Do Not Change It Back until Wayne can have a go at it.

Wait, I just noticed something.

The empty space after the segment titles in my shows now have Funky Butts as artist - even though they're just titles. This means it's definitely a programming bug. It's unlikely it can be fixed on this end. Wayne will have to sort it out after all.

Thank you for looking at it. I will leave it alone until until Wayne has a chance to look it over.

The other DJ's seem to be fixing their playlists as they can. Let's hope Wayne can get to it shortly.

Ok, I tried a few things without success. There are now 2 ways we can deal with it. And one is stupefyingly dangerous. Since you said it was ok for a time after the merge and only later was this mess discovered suggests a programming bug. One of the few that got by us along with the friending bug.

This suggests option one would be best: Let Wayne fix the bug when he returns.

There is another option (keeping in mind I'm in a bed and pumped full of Cthulhu knows what right now).

There were only 3 songs for this artist, so these tunes can be replaced, yes? The potential solution then becomes: Create another Funky Butts artist page and merge the whole mess into it leaving only the new page. The artist should be spelled differently for our reference. It can always be fixed later.

This will either neatly separate everything or blow it all to hell - leaving songs not on albums without an artist or possibly eliminating them entirely (low probability). If you noticed, the albums are still by their original artists, so it might not be that bad...famous last words.

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Dave AuJus:

8788 Funky Butts, The was in the archive. DJ Darren's show added 12368 Funky Butt, The

I "Re-named" The Funky Butt to The Funky Butts

Seeing that there were only 3 songs I proceeded to merge 8788 with 12368 keeping the 8788.

Success 2 artists merged to 8788. I leave and come back an hour later and The Funky Butts have been linked to over 500 songs and everyone's playlists are screwed up.

8788 Funky Butts, The was in the archive. DJ Darren's show added 12368 Funky Butt, The

I "Re-named" The Funky Butt to The Funky Butts

Seeing that there were only 3 songs I proceeded to merge 8788 with 12368 keeping the 8788.

Success 2 artists merged to 8788. I leave and come back an hour later and The Funky Butts have been linked to over 500 songs and everyone's playlists are screwed up.

 

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Stavro Arrgolus:

If the artist doesn't match the number, things could get more complicated - or not. No guarantees.

First tell me what was being merged (it's serious business - I don't even merge artists unless I absolutely have to - just song pages) so I'll know the extent of the pages that need sorting out - and which ones.

If the artist doesn't match the number, things could get more complicated - or not. No guarantees.

First tell me what was being merged (it's serious business - I don't even merge artists unless I absolutely have to - just song pages) so I'll know the extent of the pages that need sorting out - and which ones.

Actually the Funky Butts (e8)

Thanks e8 for pointing this out. I fixed it. In the future it might be better for you to post the correction in a message on the song page rather than as a song "Fact". Others who can fix things are more likely to fix it if it shows up as a new message in the song forum.