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Creating new dataset from list loses information. (Audio Information Lost - either Datatype or Values).

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Description

### Describe the bug

When creating a dataset from a list of datapoints, information is lost of the individual items.

Specifically, when creating a dataset from a list of datapoints (from another dataset). Either the datatype is lost or the values are lost. See examples below.

-> What is the best way to create a dataset from a list of datapoints?

---
e.g.:
**When running this code:**
```python
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset
commonvoice_data = load_dataset("mozilla-foundation/common_voice_17_0", "it", split="test", streaming=True)
datapoint = next(iter(commonvoice_data))
out = [datapoint]
new_data = Dataset.from_list(out) #this loses datatype information
new_data2= Dataset.from_list(out,features=commonvoice_data.features) #this loses value information
```

**We get the following**:
---
1. `datapoint`: (the original datapoint)
```
'audio': {'path': 'it_test_0/common_voice_it_23606167.mp3', 'array': array([0.00000000e+00, 0.00000000e+00, 0.00000000e+00, ...,
2.21619011e-05, 2.72628222e-05, 0.00000000e+00]), 'sampling_rate': 48000}
```
Original Dataset Features:
```
>>> commonvoice_data.features
'audio': Audio(sampling_rate=48000, mono=True, decode=True, id=None)
```
- Here we see column "audio", has the proper values (both `path` & and `array`) and has the correct datatype (Audio).


----
2. new_data[0]:
```
# Cannot be printed (as it prints the entire array).
```
New Dataset 1 Features:
```
>>> new_data.features
'audio': {'array': Sequence(feature=Value(dtype='float64', id=None), length=-1, id=None), 'path': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'sampling_rate': Value(dtype='int64', id=None)}
```
- Here we see that the column "audio", has the correct values, but is not the Audio datatype anymore.

---
3. new_data2[0]:
```
'audio': {'path': None, 'array': array([0., 0., 0., ..., 0., 0., 0.]), 'sampling_rate': 48000},
```
New Dataset 2 Features:
```
>>> new_data2.features
'audio': Audio(sampling_rate=48000, mono=True, decode=True, id=None),
```
- Here we see that the column "audio", has the correct datatype, but all the array & path values were lost!

### Steps to reproduce the bug

## Run:
```python
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset
commonvoice_data = load_dataset("mozilla-foundation/common_voice_17_0", "it", split="test", streaming=True)
datapoint = next(iter(commonvoice_data))
out = [datapoint]
new_data = Dataset.from_list(out) #this loses datatype information
new_data2= Dataset.from_list(out,features=commonvoice_data.features) #this loses value information
```

### Expected behavior

## Expected:
```datapoint == new_data[0]```

AND

```datapoint == new_data2[0]```

### Environment info

- `datasets` version: 3.1.0
- Platform: Linux-6.2.0-37-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
- Python version: 3.10.12
- `huggingface_hub` version: 0.26.2
- PyArrow version: 15.0.2
- Pandas version: 2.2.2
- `fsspec` version: 2024.3.1

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