Export: Clean Up Duplicates not working

[mannp]

OK thanks.

The questions you ask are answered in the original thread, including the devs ability to reproduce the problem.

Export Playlist - rsync export rather than dumb export please

Hi there

1. Yes I am always exporting to the music folder of my dap, which presents itself as an external drive to my mac.

2. No, The dap reads the files into its db but doesn’t modify the files.

More specifics, I have created a playlist with 1650 tracks in it, made up of albums.

I select the playlist (not each file) and export to the same folder each time.

With duplicates selected it re-exports the same files with no difference in speed. Takes quite some time and cause the mac’s fan to come on.

The Music folder is not ejected between exports.

I got them, and you’re clearly correct that it’s copying everything for no good reason. The way it works now is, we save a special file that lists out everything we’ve exported, and if the file-to-be-exported is in that list, and there is a file at the correct path, then don’t copy. In retrospect this seems kinda silly, I’m going to check for the file anyway, it might be better to ignore the list for this step and just check that there is a file in the correct place with the correct tags etc.

I think I’ll get to this eventually, not sure how soon. The current behavior seems wasteful to me, just need to make sure I don’t break anything while fixing it.