Modified files appearing as recently added

[simonbun]

I've just modified a single tag on a couple of albums to ensure that, when an artist's discography is presented in chronological order the albums that were released in the same year are correctly ordered (populated with full YYYY-MM-DD in OriginalDate), but after a rescan those albums now appear as Recently Added.

Looking at the database LMS knows they're the same files because of the ids.

The following data is from a subsequent test of a Single.

Before

$ select * from release where name = 'Paint It Black';
id|version|name|sort_name|mbid|group_mbid|total_disc|artist_display_name|is_compilation|image_id|barcode
1949|1|Paint It Black||||1|The Rolling Stones|0|1073|042288214427

$ select id,track_number,name,original_date,file_last_write,file_added from track where release_id = 1949;
id|track_number|name|original_date|file_last_write|file_added
7888|2|Long Long While|1966-05-07|2024-12-14T13:49:06.000|2024-12-15T09:40:45.292
7889|1|Paint It Black|1966-05-07|2024-12-14T13:49:06.000|2024-12-15T09:40:46.765

After

$ select * from release where name = 'Paint It Black';
id|version|name|sort_name|mbid|group_mbid|total_disc|artist_display_name|is_compilation|image_id|barcode
1949|2|Paint It Black||||1|The Rolling Stones|0|1073|042288214427

$ select id,track_number,name,original_date,file_last_write,file_added from track where release_id = 1949;
7888|2|Long Long While|1966-05-07|2024-12-15T13:43:50.000|2024-12-15T13:44:41.622
7889|1|Paint It Black|1966-05-07|2024-12-15T13:43:50.000|2024-12-15T13:44:41.632

It appears LMS is tracking the changes (from the version field, which I forgot to output in the track query), but for an album/track that's already being tracked shouldn't the earliest modification date be used for assessing recently added?

I can't see any open Issues/Discussions or configuration options to control this, but I hope I haven't missed anything?

I'm running LMS 3.61 in Docker.

[epoupon]

Hello!
Actually lms should be able to track both creation and update times. Maybe we want to be able to filter by both criterias? ("recently added" / "recently modified"?)
Edit: for now the "recently added" filter is indeed a "recently modified" filter

[simonbun]

Hi!

Actually lms should be able to track both creation and update times.

Do you mean that it could track them in the future? From the track table it doesn't appear to be tracking either at the moment - unless it's being tracked in another table?

Maybe we want to be able to filter by both criterias? ("recently added" / "recently modified"?)

getAlbumList2 appears to support 'newest' and 'recent' (no idea of the difference), but Symfonium only supports recently added, which I think is the standard supported by most servers.

Edit: for now the "recently added" filter is indeed a "recently modified" filter

That's certainly what I'm seeing in LMS and Symfonium.

[epoupon]

Personnaly I find more useful to have recently modified items rather than recently added items. But fine I will add this one if that's what people want!

[simonbun]

Personnaly I find more useful to have recently modified items rather than recently added items. But fine I will add this one if that's what people want!

Maybe it's a workflow thing. Do you index your music before you've "completed" tagging?

I just did a quick test with 4 servers and 5 albums.

I created 5 albums in order of album name (so creation/modification dates follow album name), loaded the first 4 into the server and looked at the recently added list:

				Minim	Plex	Jelly	Asset
(1) A New Flame			4	2	4	4
(2) Calling All Stations	3	1	3	3
(3) Faith			2	4	2	2
(4) Hard Candy			1	3	1	1

I don't know what order Plex used but the others followed the creation/modification time.

I then:

• Edited 2
• Edited 1
• Added the fifth album (creation and modification dates are later than 3 and 4 but earlier than 1 and 2)
• Performed a rescan

				Minim	Plex	Jelly	Asset
(1) A New Flame			5	3	5	5
(2) Calling All Stations	4	2	4	4
(3) Faith			3	5	3	3
(4) Hard Candy			2	4	2	2
(5) If You Wait			1	1	1	1

None of the tracked albums changed order.

This testing was carried out on Windows.

Given you prefer modification why not make it configurable, or offer both in the web-gui and a switch for use with clients?

[epoupon]

Thanks for the tests!