GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 145707
Removing duplicate list entries
Last modified: 2006-01-09 10:18:17 UTC
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable Package: rhythmbox Severity: enhancement Version: GNOME2.4.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: GNOME.Org Synopsis: Removing duplicate list entries Bugzilla-Product: rhythmbox Bugzilla-Component: Interface Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Please describe your feature request: I have some albums stored in various places (backup before editing tags, playing with different encoders, ...). So, when I let rhythmbox search for mp3 below / I occasionally end up with the same songs occuring two or more times in a row. So it would be cool if you would include a feature to remove duplicate files from the list. And it would be truly magnificent if you could make it so that if two files have the same tags for title/artist/album[/track], the one with the superior quality remains in the list. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-07-08 14:04 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "rhythmbox". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Define "superior quality" when you have 2 mp3s produced by 2 different encoders and an ogg vorbis file corresponding to the same song ;)
Hmmm, point taken...it could be quite messy. :-) Perhaps one could do it by preferring free formats to MP3 and MP3s with higher bitrate to MP3s with a lower one. Of course, songs with variable bitrate wouldn't fit this pattern... It might be a good idea to leave the responsibility with the user. Just offering some choices like "Only play first occuring version", "Always play Ogg", "Always play file with highest bitrate" for default settings in Preferences could be a way to do it. I suppose there's no way to see what encoder has been used from the contents of an MP3-file? Otherwise, this info could also be used by letting the user specify an encoder-hierarchy in Preferences. It probably would end up being a rather bloated set of options, though. :-)
this bug has my vote!
Too much bugs for rhythmbox, so let's discuss this problem in a single place. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133109 ***