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Centova Cast v3 => Feature requests => Topic started by: musicradiochina on October 08, 2009, 01:31:44 am

Title: Spotting Duplicates
Post by: musicradiochina on October 08, 2009, 01:31:44 am

When housekeeping, it'd help a lot if there were a way to see songs which might have been added to the playlists multiple times (possibly in error) and also any tracks that are omitted from any playlist.

In a previous system I used, I'd sort the playlist alphabetically and any dupes were obvious, but we can't sort alphabetically here.

Live365 used to have a handy feature where you'd tick a box to hide songs which were already in the playlist, so any that had been forgotten were obvious.  I guess Centova won't be able to do that until you ditch those wretched album folders and display their contents by default instead...

Cheers guys.

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Post by: Christian Campbell on October 09, 2010, 12:20:59 am

I agree that some mechanism for spotting duplicates would be useful.

Similarly, it would be good if when adding tracks to a playlist duplicates could be skipped (maybe the way iTunes asks if you want to skip or add duplicates).

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Post by: Dr Bunsen on October 25, 2010, 06:47:29 am

It's been my experience if you move all the tracks in one playlist to another the duplicates are removed...

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Post by: Centova - Steve B. on November 03, 2010, 10:15:49 am

Definitely a useful option.  I've added the following to our issue tracker:

Consider adding two duplicate detection options:
1) A way to detect duplicates within the current playlist in the playlist editor.  So for example, if the same track is added twice, both instances might be highlighted in red.
2) A way to detect duplicates between multiple playlists.  This would likely need to be proactively initiated by the user somehow (i.e., a "Check for dupes against other playlists" button) unlike #1 above which could unobtrusively be set to run automatically.  The UI could be similar though -- tracks in the current playlist that appear elsewhere could be highlighted (perhaps in a different shade of red) and either a new column could be added, or a tooltip could be used, to indicate which other playlist(s) the track appears in.

Thanks!

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Post by: Centova - Steve B. on November 03, 2010, 10:17:15 am

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In a previous system I used, I'd sort the playlist alphabetically and any dupes were obvious, but we can't sort alphabetically here.

This will also be addressed in a future release -- a revamp of the DHTML listboxes we use in the media library is high on our todo list, and it will include a bunch of new sorting options and general AJAXy goodness.