Merge History list items

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Merge History list items

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It would be very useful to be able to do a simply merge of history list items.
When a singer has two different versions of the same track (equivalent song/artist) and the user selects one and changes to an alternate version that is the same as the other one already in the list, using the same comparative information that is used to fill the alternate versions pop up, it would be nice if instead of simply prompting the user that you can't add the same track to the list twice, it instead asked you if you wanted to merge the items, then if yes, simply set the # sung to the sum of the two #sung values and the date in the Singer file to the most recent of the two.
Just some simple math.
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Re: Merge History list items

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this seems like a rare edge case? it's on the list, but it's not high.

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Not really an edge case. It comes up a lot with newer singers, who don't know which version to chose, or when the host adjusts the version for them to a better version. Their history list then gets clogged up with multiple versions of the same song. This increases the likelihood that it will be self-fulfilling, as they select the same worse track from their list (usually because it comes first in alphabetical order).
Being able to change this can really clean up the lists, and minimize bad selections.
Many singers in my venues have this issue to one extent or another.
Even more useful would be the similar function for two separate singers: being able to select two singers and merge their lists, using the same algorithm.

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well, it is on the list

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