Distinguish between similar tracks of different format

[Andy]

I'm assuming this happens cause I have the same song as a mp3 and flac. But when I double click on a particular song to add to the play list it will add both songs.

This is happening on 0.3.0a1 and is reproducible each time.

Any additional information/debug/testing as your request!

Thanks

[Ron Ross (ron-d-ross)]

(I'm not sure it's my role as new bug reporter to change a bug's status, but here it is...)
When I have two files, identically named (except for file extension - flac and mp3), loading one loads them both.
With Exaile 0.2.99.1, on Ubuntu 8.10, 32bit

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

1) How did you add the files to the playlist? (Nautilus, the Files panel, the Collection panel, etc.)
2) Do the files have the same artist, album, and title tags?

If the files have the same tags and you're adding them from the Collection panel, I think this is an expected behaviour, since there's no way to differentiate the two files in the panel.

[Andy (dr-diesel)]

In my case the files were added to the play list by double clicking in the collection browser. This can be prevented a number of different ways. One; the collection scanner can check before adding the song. Two the collection browser can use a "select distinct" type of command. Not sure how that mixes with the Pickle type DB.

My least favorite fix would be to simply show the duplicates in the collection browser.

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)]

I can confirm the bug. If you have 2 files (flac / mp3 for instance) with the same tags, the collection manager only shows one of them, but when you add it to the playlist, they're both added. I think we should have an option (defaulted to True) that will only append the song with the best encoding / bitrate to the playlist when songs are duplicate.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

This is simply a problem in our current method of assembling the searches in the collection panel. Future versions of Exaile will allow more flexibility in configuring the collection tree, enabling users to distinguish between different formats if they need to.

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)]

In the meanwhile, basic filtering per extension is welcome for the
0.3.0 release :)

[Andy (dr-diesel)]

Steve, Aren, any progress on this bug?

[reacocard (reacocard)]

0.3.2 will show two separate entries for these cases in the panel, however as yet there is no way to distinguish which is which without opening the track properties. Until we get a fully user-customizable tree, this is unlikely to be resolvable, since the current way we build the tree will not allow us to add [flac] or similar demarkings to the end of duplicate entries cleanly, and adding it to all entries by default is not an option.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

Just a note, the customizable tree feature is tracked in bug #808414 now. Once that's complete it should be possible to implement a way to add format info to the tree entries.