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[goatherder]

I'd been library-juggling using a combo of iTunes and j.River recently, something I've done a couple of times and it's sometimes ended up in duplicate tracks. I set a smart playlist to show me the dupes and was deleting them... until I realised that the dupes shown by j.River were the same files. i.e. in deleting the dupes, I was deleting the originals and the other file shown now pointed at the already deleted file.

There are 'real' dupes in there, but until I look at the filename I won't know if it's a real dupe.

A few choice words and a restore from a backup later followed by a library re-import, nothing has changed. What gives? Thanks.

[JimH]

iTunes used to copy files it found to a new location.  I don't know if it still does that, but this could explain the problem.

[JustinChase]

No, I've seen this problem before also.  I can't remember what I did to cause it, so I only reported it once, but never heard anything until this.

I can confirm that MC can show duplicate files in MC, but both show the exact same filename, including the path, and deleting one of the files will, in fact delete the only copy from the database.

The only way I was able to delete the 'dups' was to delete one of them, but not tell it to delete permanently, just delete from MC (can't remember the exact wording).

Media Center Registered 12.0.279 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium M 597 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 230 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D: HL-DT-STRW/DVD GCC-4243N  Mode:ModeSecure  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive D: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4243N   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:24  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /

Portable Device Info
  Removed devices: Chris

Device info dump for 'Chris Laptop':

WMDMName:
DeviceUID: {ED1C1A3A-128A-41E0-83D7-364EDD5E881A}
CanonicalName:
VendorName: ; VendorID:
ProductID: ; FirmwareVersion:
WMDMSerialNumber: NULL
DeviceType: 4; DeviceID: ; DeviceName: ; UnsupportedDevice: 0
IsDrive: 1; DriveLetter: ; DrivePath: C:\Documents and Settings\Christopher Baber\My Documents\My Music; MainDriveLetter:
IsJanusCapable: ; IsIpod:
SupportsAlbumArt: ; AlbumArtEnabled: 1
SupportsFolders: -1; PlaylistFormat: 0; EjectMode: ; AlwaysPumpCOMMessages: 0
SupportedFileTypes: *
ContextMenus:
MemoryTypes:
InstallURL:
ApplicationName: Media Center
ImageName:
RootBasePath:
AudioBasePath: \
ImageBasePath: Images\
VideoBasePath: Video\
DataBasePath: Data\
PlaylistBasePath: Playlists\
DatabaseBasePath:
AudibleBasePath: Audible\
MatchKeyExpression: If(IsEqual([Media Type], Image), [Name]
[File Size, 0]
, [Name]
Clean([Artist], 1)
[Album]
[Genre]
FormatNumber([Track #, 0])
[Media Type]
)
ChangeKeyExpression: [Rating]



Interface Plugins:
  Library Server (Active)
  TiVo Server
  UPnP Server (Active)
  Playing Now (Active)

[goatherder]

Yup, that's exactly the symptom I'm getting.

[danrien]

i'm actually getting that too now that you mention it