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RoderickGI:
Once you have dealt with any real duplicates, I have to ask...


--- Quote from: icanrule on March 02, 2020, 03:13:26 am ---You burn an artists cd and you have the music, then you burn a compilation and it has the same song that was on the original cd.  Then you burn another compilation and same thing happens.
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...why are compilations you burn (to a CD I assume) appearing in MC? You shouldn't be importing CDs that you have burned into the MC Library. Check and fix your Auto Import settings if you are. Also, don't show CDA files in your Views, if that is what you are seeing. CDA files do exist in the Library CD Database as a result of MC having seen a CD at some stage, but they shouldn't be appearing in normal Audio Views.


Build compilations in MC using Playlists. Just play those playlists if you want to listen to the compilation while using MC.
If you want to burn the compilation to a CD to play elsewhere, then use the MC function to bur a CD, but don't import that CD into MC.

Maybe I am misunderstanding how you are creating duplicates, what what you have described doesn't seem right. Or normal.


PS: Brian, I like you inclusion of the Dynamic Range column in your duplicates View. That adds a lot to the decision process.  8)

JimH:
I think he means rip, not burn.

RoderickGI:
Probably, but while I try to guess what people mean, rather than take what they write literally, that doesn't always work.

I guess English is a second language for many users. But it doesn't hurt, or shouldn't, to ask for clarification.

blgentry:

--- Quote from: RoderickGI on March 02, 2020, 06:27:30 pm ---PS: Brian, I like you inclusion of the Dynamic Range column in your duplicates View. That adds a lot to the decision process.  8)

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Thanks.  Notice that view also includes a column called "not duplicate".  If you find songs that you do not consider to be duplicates, just check that column.  There's a pane up top that has "hide" as an option and it hides all "not duplicate songs".  This way you can go though dozens or hundreds of songs, mark the ones that you don't consider to be a problem and you won't have to see them in the list any more.

Brian.

icanrule:
He is right. I did mean rip.

Blgentry:. Your answer gets to the heart of my problem.  It's true that hard drive space getting cheaper but in my heart I don't like wasted space. Additionally there is still this overarching issue of the rating system and to rate one song would require the rating of all the same songs.

Thank you for all your help.

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