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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Normal
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The Add Release page's recordings subpage at /release/add#recordings sometimes doesn't suggest the artist's identically-named recordings if they lack lengths / durations. This often makes it hard for me to select the correct recordings when I'm adding a new compilation release group for an artist who only has vinyl singles without any track lengths.
To make up an example for demonstration purposes, Junior Achievement's recording Fade To Black doesn't currently have a length set. If I add a new RG via https://musicbrainz.org/release/add?artist=1ce30e2d-d8cd-4ec5-b5bd-b2dc44d29b55 with a single track titled "Fade To Black" (yes, "to" should be lowercase; I didn't add it), the top results are all recordings by other artists, apparently ranked according by length similarity.
I think that the selected artist's length-less recordings should be prioritized here. I'd expect the top results to be identically-named recordings by the artist sorted by descending length difference, and only then recordings from other artists.
I suspect that root/static/scripts/release-editor/recordingAssociation.js is the relevant code.