# Ui.show\_model\_changes doesn't reflect reality due to fallback to album

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/ui-show-model-changes-doesnt-reflect-reality-due-to-fallback-to-album/914>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/ui-show-model-changes-doesnt-reflect-reality-due-to-fallback-to-album/914 "2019-09-11T21:31:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![kergoth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/kergoth/32/240_2.png) [@kergoth](https://discourse.beets.io/u/kergoth)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/ui-show-model-changes-doesnt-reflect-reality-due-to-fallback-to-album/914/1 "2019-09-11T21:31:43Z")

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In the case where an album has a field set, and an item has a field of the same name set, and you use beet modify to delete the field from the item, show\_model\_changes will show it changing to the album’s value, since it’s using format(), which falls back to the album value, rather than showing its removal from the item. Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/ui-show-model-changes-doesnt-reflect-reality-due-to-fallback-to-album/914/2 "2019-09-12T01:54:31Z")

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Huh, that does seem bad! Maybe we can work around this to force the change display to use item-level values without overrides?