Album merging/completion

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If you import a partial album (some track missing), and then you try to import 
the missing track it isn't allowed because the album is already in the library.

Given that beets warns about partial albums on import, it should allow to 
complete those imports in subsequent runs.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by zent...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2012 at 6:26

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Thanks for the idea! I agree that adding a "merge" option for resolving 
duplicates during import would be a good idea. The exact inner workings here 
are tricky, though -- we'll need a straightforward design for picking up the 
existing (in-library) tracks and feeding them back into the import task.

Original comment by adrian.sampson on 29 Apr 2012 at 8:41

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-Medium, Component-Importer

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This is a particularly nasty problem if your previous media player didn't 
respect various artists collections of tracks. I have a few albums of tracks 
that are spread throughout my library because the tracks were filed by artist 
name instead of being collected together as a compilation. I've had to import 
them all as single tracks to get around this problem.

Original comment by jonfr...@gmail.com on 29 May 2012 at 12:40

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Could something also be done where you may have a "disc 1" and "disc 2" folder 
(not in their own parent folder, just along side other albums) and where music 
brainz also has a combined release... so when beets encounters "disc 1" it also 
looks for "disc 2" locally and a combined release on MB to import as?

Original comment by real.hu...@mrmachine.net on 26 Jan 2013 at 11:33

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#3: See #433.

Original comment by adrian.sampson on 26 Jan 2013 at 11:41

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Hey everyone! What's the current status of this feature?

Original comment by michaels...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2014 at 12:03

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This issue tracker is no longer used. Please see GitHub.

Original comment by adrian.sampson on 5 Dec 2014 at 5:03

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Do not comment here, but on sampsyo/beets#112