Hi,
I have multiple songs with the same title. Because Navidrome sorts songs by album I gave all songs without an album the album title “Unbekannt” (“unknown” in german) and album artist “Unbekannt”. So they only differ in tags like the songs artist and maybe year, genre, etc…
After local sync of my playlist I can only listen to one of those songs. Artists and titles are displayed correctly in the playlist, but for all entries just one of those songs is played (always the same). I believe that would be the last song downloaded from Navidrome. Could it be that the songs are stored in a path format like ./album artist/album/song-id - song-title.mp3? That would explain why the songs get overridden on sync.
In my log file I played multiple songs with the same title/album artist/album title and one with the same title but different album title and album artist. The first songs all played the same song and the last song was played correctly, which gave me a hint for your save path format.
Yes, this was a deliberate personal (even selfish) decision I took in the beginning of the project. The player I use, the ancient DSub, when put in offline mode, only let’s you browse your cached songs by path. As my paths are all over the place, it is really hard to browse my music in DSub while in offline mode. Making the path follow the standard /Artist/Album/TrackNumber - Title.mp3 format, the cache stays in a sane format.
I understand that this breaks the browsing experience for a small percentage of the users, hence I added the option to report real paths.
I may change this in the future, but don’t have any plans to do it for now.
@deluan the problem here is not really the value itself but the uniqueness of it.
You added the track number when requested it helped a lot to reduce clash, but there’s still cases like this.
Maybe add an hash/the id/ something in () at the end in this mode to avoid same file representing 2 different songs.