emplode 2.0b3 double-adding MP3s

I just tried adding music with 2.0b3 and every time I try to do it, it adds all the songs I selected twice. I still have everything in Artist/Album playlists, and, for the time being, I was adding the new stuff in that manner as well. (I know -- Soup modes. But I didn't want to play with that just yet, and this still seems like a bug.) I selected an existing artist and it showed the existing album in the right pane. I dragged the new album directory into that right pane. It thought about it for a while, and then showed a dialog box that showed it adding double the number of tracks that existed in that album. When I examined it, I discovered that it had created the playlist with all the music I had expected, and then a duplicate within it.

Uhh. Oops. I'm an idiot. Turns out that emplode was reading the .m3u file I had within that directory that was my playlist for that directory and adding it in addition to the files in the directory. Fair enough, but new since 1.03. It's just a funny story and caveat now, I guess. That and I already typed it in, so you get to read it.

I think that importing M3U playlists is a selectable option in the configuration screen now. If not in 2.0b3, it might be in one of the later-than-b3 betas, I remember seeing it I think.

It's certainly a reasonable thing to do. It's just that it took me about until I finished typing in that post for my Eureka moment to occur.

And I'm not sure that it works correctly w.r.t. discarding duplicates that it already imported from the directory with the MP3 and M3U files in.

You're right; it does not. All those files that got double imported were listed in the ``All Tracks'' list twice.

Right, next year I'm going to code up something to prevent the same file being imported multiple times (within the same session). This'll solve this problem, and the other confusing delete-from-playlist issue.

It'll have to do something a bit cleverer with the tags. Consider the following:

1. Import a file
2. Edit the tags (on the file, using Winamp, e.g.).
3. Edit the tags (in emplode)
4. Import the same file again.

Should it use set of tags (2) or (3)?

Hi.

Regarding .M3U -Playlist import: Will it or does it support nested M3U playlists?
If so, that would finally be a way to completely create the playlists tree on the PC, including moods and other custom playlists besides the "standard" artist/album ones.
But even if it does not support those, it is nice to see general support for m3u-playlists, as they provide at least some help to keep PC and empeg in sync easier than before.

cu,
sven

PS: Merry X-mas and a happy new year everyone.