Feature Request - Show Duplicate Titles

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Yugatha
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Feature Request - Show Duplicate Titles

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[Backstory]
So I've been working my way through some TV series, and most discs are ok. Some, however, have the pleasure of picking up titles from the "Every Episode in one title" and some are in their own title (eg, title 1 is all episodes, but title 2 is episode 1, title 3 is episode 2, title 4 is episode 3 etc).

Most of the time, it is either one or the other. Recently, a couple of discs were split - episode 2 and 3 showed in their own titles, and the other 3 episodes were picked up as "the same as in title 1, and were therefore skipped". So I had:
title1
title2
title3
title1
title1

and the episodes were out of order. It was difficult to identify which episode was which (as they all had the same playtime), so it had to be done in MKVToolnix afterwards.

Another had "title 6 is the same as title 7, and was therefore skipped", even though, in the title selection screen, both titles 6 and 7 were in the list, and were different. (It eventuated that title 6 was title 15)

[Request]
It would be convenient if there were an opt-in feature (so as not to disrupt the current process) to keep duplicates in the list - so you may see title1 5 times, but then have titles 2-6 as well as needed. This would allow an easy way to identify the episodes and titles correctly, so as not to have to spend time later sorting it out, then renaming etc.

This would likely be an option in General, named "Don't remove duplicate titles", or something like that.

If required, I can post some images of the affected discs.

Edit:
An alternate solution could be to show all title numbers that this title matches in the Title Information section. So the line
Source Title ID: 1

could read as
Source Title ID: 1,2

To indicate the duplication
Last edited by Yugatha on Sun Oct 30, 2016 1:27 am, edited 1 time in total.
Yugatha
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Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:20 am
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Re: Feature Request - Show Duplicate Titles

Post by Yugatha »

I can't remember which disk it was now, but the below should give an idea of what's happening. The below is easy to determine, because every episode is in title 1, and the segment maps are sequential. Other discs I've worked with aren't as easy

Title values
Image

In the log
Image

The idea would be to (optionally, being OPT-IN in the settings) not skip the duplicate titles.
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