I'll have to have a play with the beta before I do anything more to my script then. See if there's actually any functionality I can add! :)

Duplicate removal has been implemented in 2.5 beta 1 :D

The next release as in the next alpha release, or 2.6?

I'm making some improvements to my script at the moment so expect a new one soon. Not that it'll be needed for long by the sounds of it! :)

The next release will have a duplicate handling implemented.

Jiri

Yes, I saw trixmoto's script and do like it a lot, but I am also hoping that the short-term and long-term plans that rusty posted in this thread earlier will be implented. As I understand it, with rusty's plan, you don't have to have a script remove duplicates - the duplicate songs won't be added in the first place.

Rusty, or any other developers, can you comment on the progress of this if possible? Thanks. :) And thanks to trixmoto for his script and rovingcowboy for pointing it out as well.

check the scripts room.

trixmoto has made a script to remove the dups from the playlist.

its in the all scripts message 8)

How is this coming along? Am still very anxious for its implementation.

Like like all the suggestion for Duplicates.

Another thing on the wish list I would like to see is a filter to view which songs in an play list is
a. extact duplicate (same song title, Artist and album)
b. Duplicate Songs (same song title) (same or other artist / albums)

what to you think.

Victor

... or in case of radio stations that do not want to play tracks with close proximity of 4 hours except "Song Of The Week" is played every hour.

I also agree with that solution said by Rusty.

Yeah, the idea is that the short term solution would warn you when you added tracks that were in close proximity within the playlist by causing the track to turn red. I think this is preferable to a dialog-box warning, since the latter will interrupt workflow, and more often than not, the user would have intended to insert a duplicate.

The idea in the medium term solution is that MM would warn you (via coloured tracks in the NP dialog) when tracks in the list are in close proximity to others that had been played recently (and optionally skip playback of those tracks). The only aspect of this that I'm not fully comfortable with is that as a DJ, you might listen to a bunch of tracks before a party, and wouldn't want the Now Playing playlist to be compared vs tracks played prior to the party.

-Rusty

I'm glad that something is being done about this! I couldn't really tell from the plans, but will the user get some type of warning notification so that they can stop the track from being added to the playlist, period, regardless of the proximity? (I hope so.)

Sophisicated planning for handling this problem and MM users appreciate the effort going into this.

Hi,

I've reviewed this and other posts re. duplicate removal functionality and wanted to validate our ideas before we move forward. The needs seem to be:

1) A means of knowing if tracks added to a playlist are duplicates
1b) and optionally removing them
2) A means of knowing if duplicates exist in a playlist
3) A means of manually removing all duplicates from a playlist
4) A means of filtering duplicates that exist in any playlist so that it can be played without editing it to remove duplicates
5) Another need that I have is to consider a duplicate a 'duplicate' only when it appears within x amount of time of a previous instance of that track on the playlist.

The proposed implementation is as follows. Any feedback would be appreciated:
[b]Short term (2.5):[/b]
Satisfy usecase 1), 3), and 5)

In Tools|Options|Library|Playlists, in the Playlists box add:
[x] Warn when duplicate tracks are added in close proximity
Proximity Detection Threshold: _[2]_ hrs

If the user adds tracks to a playlist and the tracks are duplicates, then they appear in the playlist in Red, and the user has the option of manually deleting the original or the duplicate.

In the Context Menu for playlists/Now Playing nodes, add a menu item to 'Remove Duplicates'. If the user clicks 'Remove Duplicates' then any duplicate titles after the first instance of a track in the playlist will be removed. (Note it may be a better idea to delay this until the Medium Term implementation--see below--since in the short term, there'd be no visible feedback re. which tracks are duplicates).

[b]Medium Term (2.5 or 2.6):[/b]
Satisfy all usecases.

In Tools|Options|Library|Playlists, in the Playlists box add:
[x] Warn when duplicate tracks are in close proximity
[ ] Skip playback of duplicate tracks in close proximity
Proximity Detection Threshold: _[2]_ hrs

In this case, whenever the user opens a playlist/Now playing list, the contents of that playlist are analysed for duplicates. Moreover, if 'Skip Playback...' is enabled, then a track that appear in duplicate on the playlist appears in red but is 'dulled' to indicate that it won't be played.

Also, in the Now Playing node, 'Duplicates' would be determined based on 'Last Played' timestamps (i.e. not just internal to the playlist itself).

-Rusty

THANK YOU JIRI!

[quote="jiri"]We'll try to fit it into MM 2.5.

Jiri[/quote] I reckon your gonna be busy with 2.5 :wink:

We'll try to fit it into MM 2.5.

Jiri