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[OopsieDaisy]

Media Center 32 for Windows.  After a full Win 11 Recovery, I reinstalled MC32 with no problems, then configured Auto-import (omitting .cue from audio) to include 3 separate folders from an external HDD: Movies, Orch & Chamber, and Opera & Vocal.  Orch & Chamber and Opera & Vocal comprise over 4000 discs.

Movies came through fine.  Opera & Vocal imported perfectly.  Orch & Chamber came in with two instances of every track.  I will appreciate all help offered.

[markf2748]

Do the duplicates tracks show up with one having the expected file path, and the other with an empty path (viewed in a list with column filename (path))?

If so, you can create a smartlist with the rules:
Filename (path) is <empty>
Media Type is Audio;Image

Apply the rules, select all hits with <Ctrl>+a, and delete.

I occasionally run into this problem, but do not know the root cause.  In fact, I ran the smartlist today (after reading your post) and found a large number of "pathless" duplicates for album art - so I just deleted them.  In my case, many of these "pathless" duplicates were associated with old albums originally imported long ago.  They did not show up in the smartlist when I ran it in the past.

If you find the duplicates all have the same two distinct high level paths, then that should give you a clue about what is going on.  You may be able to use a similar smartlist approach, based on path, to delete the undesired duplicates from the library en masse.

Of course, be careful with this stuff and confirm actions with one or a few backed-up hits before any mass deletion.

Win11 Pro (64-bit) | MC 32.0.56 (beta)

[OopsieDaisy]

Do the duplicates tracks show up with one having the expected file path, and the other with an empty path (viewed in a list with column filename (path))?

No such luck.  Here is an example of two duplicated tracks (file names):

H:\OPERA-ORCH-CHMBR & Covers\Orch & Chamber\Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead\Abel- SYMPHONIES, Op. 17\02 II. Andante.wma

H:\OPERA-ORCH-CHMBR & Covers\Orch & Chamber\Adam Harasiewicz\Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead\Abel-SYMPHONIES, Op. 17\02 II. Andante.wma

The upper track is correct.  The duplicated bottom track is incorrect, although the same music is on both tracks.  "Adam Harasiewicz" shouldn't be there and has nothing to do with this album. 

The weird thing is that it is just the ORCH & CHMBR that has the duplicated tracks.  The OPERA & VOCAL folder come through perfectly.

[markf2748]

If I understand correctly, you are reporting that the second path with Adam Harasiewicz in it absolutely does not exist on your H: drive, but that it somehow gets created in the MC library after importing?  And that happens for every track under Orch & Chamber?  You can probably clean it up with a smartlist, but that is strange indeed.

Your example path is not overly long, but it may be a good idea to enable Options > General > [ ] Support Extra Long File Names anyway, in case some of your other paths get long.

I have on occasion seen MC misbehave when there are strange, sometimes invisible, characters in a typed string which I entered.  You might try deleting your folder import string completely, and re-enter it carefully.

For testing purposes, try creating a new MC library and then import from only the folders under Orch & Chamber.

Could something be wacky on your external HDD?

Just grasping at straws here.

[zybex]

H:\OPERA-ORCH-CHMBR & Covers\Orch & Chamber\Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead\Abel- SYMPHONIES, Op. 17\02 II. Andante.wma
H:\OPERA-ORCH-CHMBR & Covers\Orch & Chamber\Adam Harasiewicz\Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead\Abel-SYMPHONIES, Op. 17\02 II. Andante.wma

Have you checked if the file is actually in these two places?
If it is, then MC is just importing what it sees. The files may have been there for a long time and were just excluded/deleted in the previous MC database. Now with the re-import, they came back.

If all the extra files are inside the "Adam Harasiewicz" subfolder then the cleanup should be easy, just delete the duplicates. You may have done a copy of a bunch of folders into that one by mistake (eg, by mouse drag), years ago or just yesterday.

[OopsieDaisy]

Thank you for your attention and suggestions.

I finally fumbled my way into a resolution of the problem (whatever it was).  "Adam Harasiewicz" appeared on only two discs, so I pulled the discs out of ORCH & Chamber and put them in a new folder on the external HDD, and set up Auto Import without him.  That worked, after uninstalling and reinstalling MC a few times. :'(

"A few times," because I tried to get "Adam Harasiewicz" back into the library by adding his folder to Auto Import, which caused MC crashes with the message:

"The instruction at 0x00007FFC71ADB206 referenced memory at 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.  The memory could not be read.  Click on OK to terminate the program."  (No search results were found for 0x00007FFC71ADB206.)  After that, I reinstalled MC, with partial Imports, but when opening the program, it would crash in 5-10 seconds. 

That's when leaving "Adam Harasiewicz" out of Auto Import altogether worked.  I imagine I will be able to rip the two discs with MC and get them back into the Library that way (some day).