# Beet ls -a doesn't show albums

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-ls-a-doesnt-show-albums/1212>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-ls-a-doesnt-show-albums/1212 "2020-04-15T06:14:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![clmbmb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/clmbmb/32/289_2.png) [@clmbmb](https://discourse.beets.io/u/clmbmb)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-ls-a-doesnt-show-albums/1212/1 "2020-04-15T06:14:01Z")

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For some reason and for some artists, occasionally, `beet ls -a <filter>` doesn’t show the albums. In many cases, for a band, I have 5 albums, but `ls -a` only show 2 or 3 of them. What could be the problem?

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**Author:** ![DjSlash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/djslash/32/351_2.png) [@DjSlash](https://discourse.beets.io/u/DjSlash)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-ls-a-doesnt-show-albums/1212/2 "2020-04-15T08:17:38Z")

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Could you give some examples and tell us what outcome you expected?

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**Author:** ![clmbmb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/clmbmb/32/289_2.png) [@clmbmb](https://discourse.beets.io/u/clmbmb)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-ls-a-doesnt-show-albums/1212/3 "2020-04-16T06:19:14Z")

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I remember doing something like

```auto
beet ls -a artist:yob
YOB - Atma
YOB - Catharsis
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
YOB - Elaborations of Carbon
YOB - Our Raw Heart
YOB - The Great Cessation
YOB - The Illusion of Motion
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived

```

but now it doesn’t work. It works only if I do `beet ls -a` and lists all the albums in my library.