This morning I wanted to create two related lessons As usual, I edited a course, chose to add a new lesson, uploaded an image, an mp3 audio, and an srt file. I also added a source url which was just a web page - i.e. not a Youtube link or link directly to any audio file. The first one went fine (below: first line). However, every time I tried to create the second (second line below) when the process finished the second one I was trying to create was nowhere to be found. Instead Lingq showed me I was editing the first! I tried the same process at least twice maybe three times with the same result every time.
Finally I guessed it might be because the source URL was identical. So I changed two things to import my lesson: I gave no url and I did not specify a course during import , Once I saw the import was finally successful, I edited the lesson to change the course. I did not add a source url to the second lesson so as not to tempt fate.
Hello @vernmartin So, long story short - it was done on purpose to avoid duplication of lessons imported via the browser extensions. You had already found good workaround - to create lesson first and then add an URL. Hope it will not bother you too much. Have a good day
Ok, so why not give the user a warning rather than leaving us to wonder what’s going on? This is right up there with the “Failed to save Lesson” message. The user needs to be informed of the error and given a reason why so he can self diagnose. Just throwing the lesson in the trash makes no sense.
Besides: the url is only one small part of the lesson. In this case, the audio and text for both lessons are located at the same url yet the audio and text of the two lessons are completely different.
I’m getting same, and it’s been lurking around off and on. This was from Edge, set up to delete all data every time I restart browser so should be no browsing data accumulating there.
Scratch that, looks like it might have been a happy accident. I’ve now trolled between Edge and Chrome multiple times trying to get a set of podcasts I chopped up in Audacity to load. sigh
I have yet to see a pattern - which is why I’m hoping you’ll improve the error message: show me what happened like “too many words in text” or “too many minutes in audio” or “max. words for course exceeded.”
And no: the lesson is not created no matter how often I try or what browser or platform I use to create the lesson.
My workaround is to split the audio into small chunks (I have to guess how small they are), transcribe the new parts, and create a series of lessons from those parts of the audio and transcription.
BTW, I made a (private) lesson for me out of that same podcast episode (#340 - Дать мелким неприятностям …) just recently. Not that that is relevant to this thread.
But I load the text and audio into the same lesson myself, so I only get one lesson out of it, so I guess that makes me lucky that I don’t hit the issue you do–you are making two lessons out of it, one out of the audio and the other out of the text, right? And so you put the same “Original URL” into both, right?
I belong to Max’s membership program and that gives me access to two audio files for some lessons - the lesson and a vocabulary recap. That’s why I had two lessons to create mapping to turn same url, and prompted the original post. The “Failed to save lesson” is a different issue which requires me to split some lessons. It’s a very inconvenient and annoying problem I did not see until recently.
Seems like you guys have fixed something. I see a longer lesson being automatically split into two parts. That wasn’t happening for a while. Could you please explain your recent updates?
So when I accidentally gave a duplicate URL today, the latest lesson simply disappears without warning. Remembering this post made me realize why that happened. My suggestion to avoid unexplained surprises is to stop the import and warn the user. Would be so much more pleasant than just having a lesson disappear.
