Too many plugins

[pough]

I'm not saying that Waveform has too many plugins or that I have too many plugins (I have too many plugins) but the plugin list doesn't seem to recognize when a plugin gets a new version. So after a plugin gets updated, the plugin list includes both the older version and the new version.

For example, Klevgrand's Tines was recently updated from 1.0.5 to 1.1. Here is how my plugin list looks after I installed the update:

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I install both the VST and VST3 versions, which is why there are 4 versions of Tines. There should only be 2 because only 2 are installed.

(Windows 10, Waveform 11.5.17)

[jabe]

It sounds like the versions are installed in different folders. Perhaps you overrode the default folder last time or the authors specified a different one for the new version.

[pough]

Nope, I checked that. But I just remembered that plugins can be found in an XML file.

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  PLUGIN name="Tines" format="VST" category="Synth" manufacturer="Klevgrand"
          version="1.1.0.0" file="C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\Tines.dll"
          uniqueId="54696573" isInstrument="1" fileTime="179a4d5e5c0" infoUpdateTime="179d94ca227"
          numInputs="0" numOutputs="2" isShell="0" uid="54696573"
  PLUGIN name="Tines" format="VST3" category="Instrument|Synth" manufacturer="Klevgrand"
          version="1.1.0" file="C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Tines.vst3"
          uniqueId="35570a8d" isInstrument="1" fileTime="179a4d6b8b0" infoUpdateTime="179d94b0eed"
          numInputs="0" numOutputs="2" isShell="0" uid="4aa7ca99"
  PLUGIN name="Tines" format="VST" category="Synth" manufacturer="Klevgrand"
          version="1.0.5.0" file="C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\Tines.dll"
          uniqueId="0" isInstrument="1" fileTime="1747a039fe0" infoUpdateTime="175f7d297be"
          numInputs="0" numOutputs="2" isShell="0" uid="54696573"
  PLUGIN name="Tines" format="VST3" category="Instrument|Synth" manufacturer="Klevgrand"
          version="1.0.5" file="C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Tines.vst3"
          uniqueId="0" isInstrument="1" fileTime="1747a03af80" infoUpdateTime="17726684fb8"
          numInputs="0" numOutputs="2" isShell="0" uid="4aa7ca99"

It's a bit hard to read and the listing order is:
VST (new)
VST3 (new)
VST (old)
VST3 (old)

The only real differences I can see apart from version number is the new ones have a uniqueId with a value and the old ones have uniqueId="0". There is a uid (unique id?) that matches. Is this due to a transition from uid to uniqueId, maybe?

[jabe]

Well, you're right, it does seem to be a quirk in Waveform. The XML will be where the results of the scans go. You could probably delete the two old ones as a temporary measure, but it would be useful to find the cause and have the software deal with it.

[asprog]

Hello,

same here after a manual scan of my plugins!
Seems buggy since the last version…

[herbaltree]

I have lots of duplicate plugins showing recently. Almost all plugins are listed twice (or four times if I have VST and VST3 versions), and the duplicates have exactly the same version number and file location. I have not updated these plugins (well, possibly one or two but not dozens of them overnight), but I did recently update the version of Waveform. The only plugins showing once are ones I have installed in the last week or so.

[pough]

I'm guessing this isn't going to be addressed, so maybe the only way to solve it is to remove all plugins from the list and then re-scan fresh. It's slow, but not as slow as waiting for this to be fixed.

[asprog]

Hello,
maybe you could change the topic title and add « BR » to be sure the Tracktion Team read it and see it was a bug

[Kott]

I suppose it because of JUCE's change of internal plugins keeping from plugin ID to Unique_ID
Perhaps there is now other way than rebuild your collection from scratch =\