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darthlaker:
I am new to MAC audio and I am wondering why one album will have the tracks doubled? (so 2 track #1, 2 track #2 etc).

This seems to happen when I have 2 versions of the same album on my HD.

One will be highrez (FLAC 24bit) of the album, the other will be Apple lossless of the same album.

So when I select the album I see double tracks.

Any way to prevent this?

Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks.

JimH:
Under Tools/Import/Autoimport, check your autoimport settings by editing each folder.

You can use search to select files and "soft" delete them.  Go slowly and try a few to make sure you're not removing the file itself.

darthlaker:
Thanks.

OK, I have previously imported all my albums.

So, using the AutoImport, how will I find the albums that have these "double track entries"? (I probably have over 300 as I have a lot of high rez albums which are also on my HD in lossless as well).......

shAf:

--- Quote from: darthlaker on September 17, 2013, 07:35:52 am ---...
So, using the AutoImport, how will I find the albums that have these "double track entries"? (I probably have over 300 as I have a lot of high rez albums which are also on my HD in lossless as well)......

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Have MC present a "list style" with 'Details', and then right click the column headers and add something like 'Bit Rate', or 'File Type' ... anything that would distinguish your HD tracks from your other tracks ... and then click on the header and it will sort the tracks for you.

Personally, I avoid the double entries by including "[HD]" in the album name ...

HTH  :)

bplexico:
If you want to keep both sets of albums - the hi res and Apple lossless versions (I assume they are different versions of the albums) - there are as people have already noted - two options:

Option 1 - You should tag the hi res albums differently, ie "Album Title - (24/96)"
Option 2 - Create a custom view - You could call it "Hi Res" and set a rule to only show albums with a bit depth of "24". Doing this you would not need to re-tag all your duplicate albums. However standard views (Albums & Artists) would still show duplicates.

Or if you do not need both sets you could delete the non hi res albums.

Be mindful if you continue to add these type of albums to your collection over time you should consider tagging the high resolution ones differently.

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