Seems to be difference in where bootleg live albums are listed depending on artist?

I’m confused, looking at live albums

If I go to the Echo & the Bunnymen page - Echo & the Bunnymen - MusicBrainz and then Show all release groups the Album + Live section is expanded with bootleg albums - this is what I expect.

But if I go to to the Björk page - Björk - MusicBrainz
and then Show all release groups the Album + Live section doesn’t change, but then if I go the second page there is now another Album + Live page which seems to be all the bootleg albums

I cannot understand the difference in behavour between the two artist pages.

That’s probably connected to MBS-11748, but maybe @Bitmap can explain why the grouping isn’t working as expected either, not just the sorting inside the group.

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Yeah, it’s related to “Unofficial” release groups always being paged after official ones.

The confusion arises because if all official & unofficial release groups fit on a single page (or get paged together in general), they’ll still be grouped together under the same type header. The type groupings like “Album + Live” don’t group all results together, just the results on that page. This is definitely confusing and can be improved.

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Also those “official” release groups can still contain bootleg releases, so one might even find some bootlegs there and not in the second list. I think that ads to the confusion additionaly.

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