Author Topic: Issues when synchronize same name playlists  (Read 728 times)

Martin123

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Thanks for reading.
I am having trouble with the following phenomenon when synchronize below two playlists to Removal Disk.
MusicBee version is 3.3.7367.

<Precondition>
(Playlist1)
artist1\best
content is:
C:\Music\artist1\music1.flac

(Playlist2)
artist2\best
content is:
C:\Music\artist2\music2.flac

Both playlist name "best" are the same, but folder names differ.

<Result>
Note that E: is Removable disk.

(Copied files)
E:\Music\artist1\music1.flac
E:\Music\artist2\music2.flac

(Copied playlist)
E:\Playlists\best.m3u
content is:
..\Music\artist2\music2.flac

Maybe "artist1\best" was copied once to "E:\Playlists", but overwritten by "artist2\best".

I will suggest two options of ideal result.

<Ideal result (1)>
(Copied files)
E:\Music\artist1\music1.flac
E:\Music\artist2\music2.flac

(Copied playlist)
E:\Playlists\artist1\best.m3u
content is:
..\..\Music\artist1\music2.flac

E:\Playlists\artist2\best.m3u
content is:
..\..\Music\artist2\music2.flac

This means that the playlist folder structure will be kept.

<Ideal result (2)>
(Copied files)
E:\Music\artist1\music1.flac
E:\Music\artist2\music2.flac

(Copied playlist)
E:\Playlists\artist1_best.m3u
content is:
..\Music\artist1\music2.flac

E:\Playlists\artist2_best.m3u
content is:
..\Music\artist2\music2.flac

This means that the playlist will be renamed as "foldername_playlistname".


By the way, the option "create a sub-folder for each playlist and its tracks" didn't help me at all.

<Result>
E:\MUSIC\ -> empty

(Copied files)
E:\Playlists\best\music2.flac

(Copied playlist)
E:\Playlists\best.m3u
content is:
.\best\music2.flac

Steven

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you will need to use different names for your playlists

Martin123

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Yes, I know I can take workaround by naming playlist as unique name.

No messages are shown in this use case, so that users cannot notice this phenomenon. Therefore I've reported.

Anyway, thank you for reply.