import audio metadata import options

[Robby Stephenson]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 4:40 PM Jessica Jones <
jess.jones.unitedkingdom at protonmail.com> wrote:

> When choosing "import audio metadata" there is a choice between:
> - replace current collection: this removes everything in the currently
> opened file and replaces it with the imported audio files? So the result is
> a new collection with the newly imported audio files?
> - append to curent collection: this adds the imported audio files to the
> currently opened file? So everything inside the file is still in there but
> the imported audio files are added to it?
> - merge with current collection: I don't know what this means. Is "merge"
> not the same as "append"? What is the difference between append and merge?
> Can you tell if this is correct and what the last 2 options means?
>

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/tellico/tellico/importing.html

Tellico offers three different actions when importing data. Replace current
> collection will close the current collection, and create a new one with
> the data from the imported file. Append to current collection tells
> Tellico to add all the entries in the imported collection to the current
> one, and to add any fields which don't currently exist. The Merge
> collection action is the same as appending, except that each imported
> entry is compared to the current ones, and any identical entries are
> skipped. Tellico attempts to identify matching entries which are not
> completely identical by comparing significant fields and will then merge
> the entries. For example, music collections compare the artist and album,
> and the tracks would be merged for matching entries. The audio file
> importer
> <https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/tellico/tellico/importing.html#importing-audio-files> is
> able to correctly build track lists by merging entries.
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