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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: Coogan on October 26, 2020, 07:23:17 PM

Title: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: Coogan on October 26, 2020, 07:23:17 PM
It would be helpful to have a 'duplicate notification' pop-up, if I add a track to the Playing Tracks List that is already there.

Coogan
Title: Re: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: phred on October 26, 2020, 09:12:17 PM
That already exists. And has for a good number of years.

How are you adding to the playlist? Typically I drag and drop. And get the warning.
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Title: Re: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: psychoadept on October 26, 2020, 09:23:08 PM
Is that true for Playing Tracks, though? Testing now, I can add duplicate tracks there without any interference.
Title: Re: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: Coogan on October 26, 2020, 09:26:09 PM
Is that true for Playing Tracks, though? Testing now, I can add duplicate tracks there without an interference.

That's what I mean.  I get no notification that the track already exists in the Playing Tracks List.
(I'm not talking about Now Playing.)

Coogan
Title: Re: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: Zak on October 27, 2020, 05:35:51 PM
Just an idea, if this was added...

It might be useful if the message indicated whether the duplicate track being added has already been played, or is queued to be played later.
I'm thinking of scenarios where people use MusicBee to play music at a party say, where adding a track that has been played already might be a deliberate choice, as opposed to inadvertently adding a song that is going to be played eventually anyway and then hearing it twice.

This would be easy to check for normal playback, but might be too complicated in shuffled order.
I don't really know how MusicBee keeps track of what has already been played from the Playing Tracks list to guess.
Title: Re: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: Coogan on October 27, 2020, 08:00:13 PM
Just an idea, if this was added...

It might be useful if the message indicated whether the duplicate track being added has already been played, or is queued to be played later.
I'm thinking of scenarios where people use MusicBee to play music at a party say, where adding a track that has been played already might be a deliberate choice, as opposed to inadvertently adding a song that is going to be played eventually anyway and then hearing it twice.

This would be easy to check for normal playback, but might be too complicated in shuffled order.
I don't really know how MusicBee keeps track of what has already been played from the Playing Tracks list to guess.

That's is an excellent suggestion.
I use MusicBee for live events myself, and it would be helpful to know if the song is already in the list.
Having the option to add it anyways would be a nice touch.
Title: Re: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: Steven on November 29, 2020, 06:27:44 AM
For the next v3.4 update, I have added a duplicates warning for the playing tracks list which can be disabled
Title: Re: Notification If Adding Duplicate Track To Playing Tracks
Post by: Coogan on November 29, 2020, 02:01:53 PM
For the next v3.4 update, I have added a duplicates warning for the playing tracks list which can be disabled
Thank you Steven.
I really like the direction you're taking MusicBee.