If I have a track already in an existing playlist and some time later I’m listening to that same track and re-add it to the SAME playlist (because I’m silly and forgotten it’s already in the playlist), instead of Roon re-displaying the little popup message ‘Added to playlist…’ can it instead display a little popup message ‘Already in playlist…’ - and not add a duplicate track.
I know I can filter and remove for duplicates manually.
I’m just lazy and sometimes silly with re-adding the same tracks to existing playlists
lol happens to me all the time… Perhaps the “little popup message” can ask what to do or offer a configurable default setting that will happen if no action is taken while the message is displayed.
This way it will cater everybody in this regards while not affecting the UX for those oblivious to the change.
In the meantime it is good that there is the “show only duplicates”… I just wish, like you, that this situation would be avoided ahead of my listening time with the playlist - hearing the same song again and having to skip, remove it or taking a mental note to remember removing it later - distract from the music…
Is there a way to prevent Roon from adding duplicate tracks to a playlist?
I know it’s possible to clean up duplicates after, but I’d love to be warned when adding a song that it already exists.
Oh, that would be great thanks. I wasn’t sure whether it was existing functionality that I just didn’t see, but if it’s a new feature request that works too. I think Spotify does something similar to this, they show a dialog if you’re adding a duplicate to allow you to confirm/deny whether you’d like to add it.
Yes, please.
A warning “This track is already in the target playlist. Continue? Y/N” Would be better, because there are times when you might actually want dupes.
Well, that depends on what you define as a “duplicate”. I personally add different versions of the same song by the same artist to the same playlist, and do all the time.
When browsing albums it would be so helpful if there was an indicator easy to see that shows I already added a track to one of my playlists and maybe a easy way to quickly see which playlist when i flick on the track. This would be really help to avoid adding duplicate songs. Also a notice if you do add a duplicate track saying ‘are you sure you want to add this, its already on your playlist’.
Of course you can go to a play list and search to see if you have the track on there but that takes much longer and is more cumbersome. Please consider this.
