As I have a meticulously arranged folder selection and a collection of files with poor id3 tags, I have always opted to browse folders and queue an artist or album.

A problem I run into doing this though is in the situation where I have both FLAC and mp3 rips of the same files, or a .m3u (or similar) playlist file in the folder of the album- I end up with duplicate entries for the album. Like this:

http://i.imgur.com/Omjxq.png

Is there any method I could use to prevent Amarok from opening these filetypes when I queue a folder? Say, only queue FLAC or only MP3, or exclude playlist files.

Or alternatively, a method for preventing duplicates on a dynamic level for new playlists? There was some documentation on this perhaps existing in some form in an upcoming release, but I was unclear exactly the magnitude.

I've been searching around a great deal, but either nobody else faces this problem, it does not bother anybody, I am not searching for the right things, or a solution is so obvious that nobody has bothered to ask.

Thanks in advance for any insight I may have missed.

In Amarok 2.2 you can filter the playlist by filetypes.

The playlist should not generate a duplicate entry in the collection.

To separate the collection by filetypes it would need multiple collections though which is not supported (yet) by Amarok.

This is precisely the functionality I was seeking, I can't believe I did not stumble upon it.

Thanks much.