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blgentry:
You have thousands of duplicate songs?  So close to 1000 duplicate albums?  If that's true that's really a shock.  My entire collection is less than 1000 albums.  That represents a lifetime of collecting the music that I love.  In that collection I have something like a dozen duplicated albums (different versions of the same thing).

Brian.

Anxiety Powder:
Oh I meant individual songs! But yeah for albums I probably have close to what you have.

If I was gonna introduce a system to differentiate different duplicates, I'd prefer to have the same rule even on non-duplicates, just for continuity's sake. That's why I said thousands, the total number of dupes is probably much smaller.

blgentry:
I'm not sure if we are understanding one another or not.  I'm only suggesting that you change the album name for albums that different from the original release.  Like my examples above:  Rumours and Rumours (DVD-A) .  Or "Good For Your Soul" and "Good For Your Soul (Remaster)". 

Presumably you only have a dozen or two duplicate albums, so there's very little retagging to be done.  Just retag the duplicates with unique album names.

I'm not sure if you know, but you can retag the album name on an entire album with just one operation.  Highlight the album, then in the tagging window, change the album name.  This will change it for all songs in the album.

Brian.

blgentry:
PS:  If this isn't your style, carry on with what you are doing. 

The reason I'm advocating for unique album names is this:  In my experience you are going to encounter multiple places in MC and media management in general, where having a unique album name really helps.

Best of luck whatever you decide to do.

Brian.

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