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Problem syncing duplicate files to a device
Anxiety Powder:
I'm trying to send some audio files to a "device", it's actually a folder named "Device 1". My method: Right Click>Send To>Drives & Devices>Device 1. Then I press "Sync Now".
The problem is some of these files have the same artist, album, track number and title, so they are being flagged as duplicates which means JRiver refuses to sync them to Device 1. However they don't share the same year. How can I convince JRiver that they are not duplicates, without changing their filenames or track titles? I don't want to change these as this will create a bunch of other problems for me.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
Matt:
How about putting the year after the name in parentheses?
Anxiety Powder:
--- Quote from: Matt on June 25, 2023, 09:21:06 pm ---How about putting the year after the name in parentheses?
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As in, put the year in the [name] tag field? I'm trying best to avoid renaming such fields, as it would cause problems with my workflow.
My "Audio Filename Rule", in the Handheld sync options, is: [Album] ([Year]) - [Name]. The "Audio Path" just puts them all in one folder.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: Anxiety Powder on June 25, 2023, 08:48:40 pm ---The problem is some of these files have the same artist, album, track number and title,
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I'm going to guess that these are different versions of the same album. Like a remaster that was released later or something like that.
How do you identify these individual albums in JRiver? I'm guessing you have some key that tells you which album is which. I'd like to suggest that different versions of the same album, really are not the same album. Because they are different by definition. So something should tell you which is which. Generally speaking, I think adding descriptive text after the album name is the correct solution.
For example I have the album "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac. I have it from CD and from DVD-A. The mixes are different and the sample rates are different. The album name, in my collection, for the DVD-A version is "Rumours (DVD-A)". This makes it very easy to locate and obvious to me and most others as to what it is.
Of the very few remasters I have, I do something similar. For example "Good For Your Soul (Remaster)". I could include the year in there if I wanted to, but there's only one remaster that I'm aware of so the year is mostly irrelevant to me.
If you tag your collection in this way, it will solve your current issue and perhaps future similar issues caused by all of the metadata being the same for two things which are not the same.
Take care,
Brian.
Anxiety Powder:
--- Quote from: blgentry on June 26, 2023, 08:22:21 am ---I'm going to guess that these are different versions of the same album. Like a remaster that was released later or something like that.
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Yes that's basically it.
--- Quote from: blgentry on June 26, 2023, 08:22:21 am ---How do you identify these individual albums in JRiver?
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I differentiate the different releases by additional tags such as media, catalogue number, barcode, label and release country. Sometimes all of these are the same, because I have several vinyl rips by different people, in which case I have a tag for that.
The issue is I sync all my playlists using Soundiiz, so I can have them on Deezer, Spotify, etc. It works by uploading a playlist file in a specific format, so it matches songs by track title and artist. If I change these it won't recognise them, but I might be able to change the album tag, although it's not ideal for me.
I just want to avoid having the same information in multiple tags, it adds visual clutter. Plus I'd have to retag thousands of songs.
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