Deleting track from disk leaves track listed in playlists, even though track no longer exists
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mixxx |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I deleted a track from my hard drive. In Mixxx, I ran "rescan library." This, correctly, removed the track from appearing in search results in my list of TRACKS in the Mixxx Library. However, the track still appears as available in my PLAYLISTS. Trying to PLAY the track fails with "track not found." In the middle of a DJ set, this is BAD, BAD, BAD. I assumed that PLAYLISTS were just links to tracks in the Master Library and that PLAYLIST track listings would be updated when "rescan library" was run. Apparently, this is not so. Unplayable, nonexistent tracks seem to be left in PLAYLISTS. There is no "rescan library" option for PLAYLISTS. Running ANALYZE on PLAYLISTS does not remove the bad listings. I thought that I remembered there being a toggle for "display unplayable tracks", but I couldn't find any such option. I have tracks added to several of my PLAYLISTS which point to the same, now nonexistent, track in Master Library. It will be painful to manually edit them all out. Thanks!
summary: |
- Mixxx 2.2.0: deleting track from disk leaves track listed in playlists, - even though track no longer exists + Deleting track from disk leaves track listed in playlists, even though + track no longer exists |
Changed in mixxx: | |
assignee: | nobody → ronso0 (ronso0) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
milestone: | none → 2.3.3 |
Changed in mixxx: | |
assignee: | ronso0 (ronso0) → nobody |
I can confirm that there is an issue. But a solution is not that easy. We cannot remove the tracks unconditionally from the play list, because the file missing might be a temporary issue, because of a missing hard drive or such.
A possible solution is probably to gray the file out. The remaining question its: when should the greyed out status be updated.