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[drosoph]

Since I cant figure out a way to get my duplicates (over 4,000 files) to select only every other file ... I would like to know if there is a way to EXPORT the Duplicates file to EXCEL .. Limit it to the dupes I want to get rid of .. and then IMPORT that playlist into MC ..

What format would the Playlist need to be ? CSV, TXT, Space Delimited ?

Can someone give me a pointer here ?

What extension do I even call the file ?

[drosoph]

OK,  exported my dupes ... cleaned it up to be JUST the files  want to delete from the library ..
now, how do i get this file back into MC ?

its just a tab-delimited txt file right now ..

[drosoph]

Ok .. checked out a couple of formats ...

deleted all columns except the FILENAME column and made an M3U file ..

That works (some errors) ...

And nows my dupes are gone ... all 2200 of them !!!

[jleerigby]

But have they ALL gone?  If you were looking for exact matches on a particular field then slight discrepancies could mean that some are missed.  King Sparta's MD5Master is the solution.  You can set this up to set a tag value in a custom field based on just part of the artist / track name and also to ignore or replace certain words or characters.  e.g. You could set it to ignore stuff inside brackets and replace and with & when calculating the value to put in the tag field.  This would mean that:

'Johnny Marr & The Healers, Night & Day (radio edit)'

would generate the same tag value as:

'Johnny Marr, Night and day'

So after running the plug in against all your library you use MC's dup modifier to list all the tracks where this custom field is duplicated and review them one by one deleting unwanted ones as you go.