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Do you use symbolic links ?
Can you check the folder names of 2 duplicated entries (in song properties->info), are they exactly the same ? (in particular, check for double slashes, or presence of a slash at the end of the folder name)
Were the duplicated entries present from the start, or did they appeared later ?

If you are willing, sending me your ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/tags file by email could help me find what is wrong (I promise to keep it private).

thanks, I've just fixed it in git. It was a really stupid bug, easy to overlook, except in german because then the affected command ends up first in alphabetical order :)

Oh, I didn't realize that I was using an outdated version...

Well it's not exactly outdated, it's still the latest stable version. It's just that I probably won't make new release on this branch (maybe one with the 2 fixed bugs in git), so I certainly won't spend a lot of time investigating a bug in v1.0.x unless I have precise info on it.

But the git version has another problem: I can't access the preferences menu. Is this a known bug?

Do you mean the preferences dialog ? It should work. if it doesn't show up, could you send me the terminal output ?

First, you should have mentioned it's for the v1.1.x branch :)
Second, you're not the first to want other contextual web pages, and your post made me want to implement a new system where users can easily add custom web pages. It's nearly done, it will be in git in the next few days (I'll post a reply here).
I'll include a list of ready-to-add websites.

I'll assume you are talking about version v1.0.x, tell me if you are not.
Thanks for reporting this, I'm no longer working on v1.0.x, and as the way songs data are handled in the new version (v1.0.x currently in alpha) has completely changed, it's unlikely the bug is still there (though there are lots of new ones to play with :) ).
So unless you can find what action causes this to happen (I doubt it's time, as there is nothing distinguishing an old rating from a new one), I won't be investigating it, sorry.

It's mostly done in the v1.1.x branch, the only thing lacking is the gui to activate it (sorry it's taking so long :-[).

In the meantime, if you want to test it, you can use the v1.1.x branch (latest git version is better), and remove the line "_disabled=>1," following the line "composer =>" in gmusicbrowser_songs.pm.
You can then add a composer column by right-clicking on the column headers, and add a composer tab in by right clicking on other tabs. You can use the composer value in some places (where you can use %a for artist ...) by using $composer.
Of course re-reading the song tags is needed to pick-up existing composer tags in your collection.

Yes, thanks for reporting this, someone else reported it a couple of days ago. It took me a while to reproduce it in some cases, it seems to happen much more in some system configuration, I don't know which ones. I found that for some reason, using strange utf8 characters, like "????" makes it happen much more reliably.
It is a bug revealed by the new gtk versions that use client-side windows.

It can be worked around by setting the environment variable GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS to 1 before running gmusicbrowser :

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GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 gmusicbrowser
you can also set it by adding the line :

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BEGIN { $ENV{GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS}=1; }
at the top of /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser, before "use Gtk2".

I've just fixed it in git (in both v1.0.x and master) by simplifying the code used to draw these labels. I actually don't know why I made it so complicated in the first place, I guess I know gtk better now. By the way, it happens with Title/Artist/Album because I make them scrollable in case the text is too long.
commit for v1.1.x : http://git.gmusicbrowser.org/commit/6d2da66f71f8ddc36ddbcd8c07af6aeedd5d90a5
commit for v1.0.x : http://git.gmusicbrowser.org/commit/3d07a02441269a8d97aaeb957d901d0eb2908e6c

Pour l'instant les images pour les artistes ne sont jamais choisies automatiquement :(
J'ajouterai cette fonctionnalité dans une future version (en même temps que la ré-écriture du système de choix automatique de pochette d'album).

S'il s'agit simplement d'un changement du dossier de base, le mieux est probablement d'utiliser cette commande pour remplacer le vieux chemin par le nouveau :

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perl -pi -e "s#/old/path/#/new/path/#g" ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/tags
En remplacant "/old/path/" et "/new/path/", bien sûr tout les chemins "/old/path/" trouvés seront remplacés.

Ubuntu's default notify daemon does not support action buttons in its notifying bubble. It seems they have decided to display a dialog  ??? instead when the application request action buttons.
You just need to disable the "Display stop/next actions" option in the notify plugin. It is also possible to replace the ubuntu's notify daemon by the other one (can't remember their names).

Yes, sorry, in the v1.1.x branch, the auto-selection of album picture is not yet implemented. But you can still select pictures manually (right-click on album name). Also, if you migrate from v1.0.x to v1.1.x (if the tags file exist, but not the gmbrc file) the album pictures selection will be preserved.

The lack of this feature is one of the main reasons the v1.1.x branch is still in alpha and not in beta. It will probably be implemented in v1.1.5 (I will release a v1.1.4 soon)

4) Not saving playlists.
It works for me, did you check the "remember filter" option in the "Misc." tab ?
The autofill mode is not saved because I never thought about saving it, but I will fix it so that it is saved if the "remember filter" option is on. Or maybe I should add a "remember queue" option ?

I think setting the album_artist tag (only possible in v1.1.x) to the album name will do just that.
By the way, I still need to use a default album_artist name when the compilation flag is on, maybe I could add an option to use the album name instead of "Various artists" or "Compilation".

Note that you can remove the artist tab and add instead a album_artist tab (with the small problem of a longer tab name  :(, suggestions welcome) by right clicking on the tabs.

About sorting songs by album_artist, I've just noticed that currently you can only sort using the "raw" album_artist, that is empty when no album_artist is defined. I'll add the "virtual" album_artist that is equal to the artist when no album_artist is defined. Suggestions for names to differentiate between the "raw" and "virtual" album_artist would be appreciated.

It's planned (can't say when) as an option, at least by using the "Artist Sort Order" tag, and maybe also by using a user defined expression.

1) there was a bug that caused saving problems with layouts that have ":" in their name. I fixed it some time ago in git, I should have released a 1.1.4 sooner, I'll do it soon, maybe later today.

2) and 3) yes, that happen when the gapless option is on. The gapless option use a new feature of gstreamer "playbin2" that replace "playbin", which cause these crashes. I still don't know if the crashes come from my code, from gstreamer or from the perl bindings for gstreamer.

4) I'll take a look at this, I'll reply later.

It's planned, I want to make it possible to submit to both at the same time.
In the meantime, you can just replace "post.audioscrobbler.com" by "turtle.libre.fm" in the file plugins/audioscrobbler.pm