exaile has started adding unwanted tracks to the playlist

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: exaile

Exaile has developed the following strange behaviour: When I add songs from my library to the playlist and start playback, exaile adds some more of its own choosing from the library. It doesn't add these extra songs until I start playback. I'm not sure what it's criteria are, but there is evidently some kind of pattern.

For example:

Just now I dropped Tom Jobim's Samba do Avião to the playlist and exaile decided to add five songs of its own, all by Brazilian artists. This would mean that the songs all come from the same subdirectory of one of the two directories that I have nominated in the library manager.

Then I dropped the whole of Massilia Sound System's Aïoliwood into the playlist. As the first track started playing M's Pop Muzik was added. All the other tracks each caused one song from an album by Asian Dub Foundation. When these songs in their turn started playing, a host of new songs were added, most of them from various Kraftwerk albums, along with 3 songs by Radiohead and two by the Aphex Twin. Pop Muzik itself caused a Bowie song to be added. Since my music collection is arranged in subdirectories according to the artist's country or region, and that albums by particular artists are each stored in their own directory as subdirectories of a directory named after that artist. This would mean that the Bowie song would be in the same subdirectory of my library as Pop Muzik, but the others are not so closely related (within the file system) to the tracks that summoned them, although most of them are related to each other.

I imagine that database corruption would have something to do with this, in which case you will probably want a copy of my database and a directory listing. I'm not keen on publishing so much of my personal information on the web. Would it be possible to send these privately if you need them?

[Adam Olsen (arolsen)]

Uncheck "Dynamic Playlist" and this behavior will stop.