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Author Topic: Curious problem with two copies of each song in MC19  (Read 1081 times)

flyfish2002

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Curious problem with two copies of each song in MC19
« on: March 11, 2014, 02:22:50 pm »

I recently bought a NAS and copied my FLAC files from a music dedicated laptop to the NAS.  I then deleted these FLAC files from the laptop, so the laptop has just the OS and MC19 now.  And yes, I already owned a mirrored NAS for back-up purposes which remains and is in use. 

I pointed MC19 to the new library location and I now have two copies of each song showing up in MC19.  Each album folder contains two copies of each song.  When I go to the NAS, there is but one copy of each song within an album folder.

What did I do?

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Re: Curious problem with two copies of each song in MC19
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2014, 02:24:28 pm »

Look at the Filepath column in the Files view, for any track and its mate.
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Re: Curious problem with two copies of each song in MC19
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2014, 02:37:00 pm »

Thanks.  It lists the same file path three different ways:

W:\  (the drive name)
10.0.0.21 (the IP address)
NAS-17-B2-14 (the host name of the NAS used by the NAS SW)

These are all pointing to the same location. 

Maybe delete this library and start over? 
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Re: Curious problem with two copies of each song in MC19
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2014, 02:42:22 pm »

Those three are *different* paths, to the same file, and hence the problem.

Configure Auto-Import to only use one of these paths.  Use either a Windows drive path (local or mapped network), or a UNC path (e.g. \\server\path\to\files).  Tools > Import > Configure Auto-Import...

Then, sort by Filename and select all the path entries you don't want and hit Delete (using the first option in the dialog).
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Re: Curious problem with two copies of each song in MC19
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2014, 03:14:42 pm »

Thanks.  Did all the above and I am all set.  The library, images and Auto-Import all are directed to the same path. 

Doesn't matter I guess how  I did this - it is fixed! 
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