Let’s say I am building a new playlist. That can take quite awhile. Days even. Let’s say I add the same favorite album to the playlist two or three times by mistake, because on Thursday I forgot that I already added it on Saturday?
WHY do all those tracks then appear in the same playlist MULTIPLE TIMES???
A playlist should be a UNIQUE set of tracks, containing no duplicates. The code required to make that happen is TRIVIAL. If Roon opened their codebase to me it would be a one-line fix.
There could be a warning but I don’t see why it should be forbidden to craft a playlist with repeat tracks. Anyway, the playlist improver feature finds duplicate tracks.
LOL, if they did what you wanted and made it impossible to add tracks multiple time, then you would have people complaining that they can’t add tracks multiple times.
At least this way they are giving more control rather than less control of what is in your playlist.
As @Suedkiez says the improver is the method to clean up the playlist if needed.
There is a video that goes over the improver in this post:
Note: the “improver” only shows up if there are things to be improved… so not all playlists will have the option to improve it.
Thank you! Pardon me for being a grumpy ex-software developer.
The one advantage I can see to adding the same track multiple times, is that it increases the hit rate of a particular song. But you sure as heck better be setting your playlist on shuffle, otherwise you might hear the same track multiple times in a row.
Not every playlist is intended for shuffle play. Some people craft a playlist with a defined progression from track to track, and who’s to say I’m not allowed to repeat a track after a while because it makes sense in the logic of the progression. Or maybe someone wants to play the same jingle every hour or something
The Playlist Improver is awesome! Just what the doctor ordered.
So, to me, this is a UX issue. Upon adding new tracks to a playlist it would be trivial to provide a tiny bit more information to the user. Let’s say I add an album containing 10 tracks. Upon adding them the snackbar (whatever you want to call the “hear’s what just happened” widget), you display
"10 tracks added (3 are duplicates [?])
The [?] would be a typical ‘click here for more info’ icon. In that popup in makes mention of the Playlist Improver tool, with probably a link that takes you directly to the UI. A change like this requires zero additional clicks for the power user, and it teaches newbies about new features. This kind of cross-linking between relevant features is something I did non-stop leading a web dev team. All of it is intended to reduce support calls.