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[Mr ChriZ]

Every now and again I do a search for duplicates and find the following has happened

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My housemates find the same thing now and then.

Only answer seems to be kill the library and start again.
Doing a search of this board shows a few people have had this problem...
Would be nice if MC had a way to check it's database for duplicates,
and then do something inteligent about it...

[loki128]

I have a similar problem with doing an 'Import Library' operation - about 200 files wind up with duplicates.

I also have a similar duplicates problem with synchronizing to my MP3 player (a Samsung YH-J70, which is a generic UMS device). Every time I sync, if I come back at another time or click 'Recheck Sync', there are always some files it wants to re-transfer to the player, making duplicates on there. Hopefully .171 will sort this out.

EDIT (23.15GMT, 4/11): Here's a temporary solution; make a Smartlist with the following criteria:
- Duplicates [Name],[Artist],[Album],[File Path]
- No Duplicates [Name],[Artist],[Album,[File Path]

This will find the duplicate files, then remove one instance of each, leaving you with all duplicate file entries - which can then be deleted from the library.