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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 27 for Mac => Topic started by: Lamar Renford on March 16, 2021, 04:55:01 pm
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I have been trying to delete duplicates since I had the trial version. I thought that I would have success with the purchased version, but not so. I have followed the instructions for creating a smart list, however when I press F9 as instructed, I don't get the dialogue window to create a smartlist. It just minimizes the screen. I am on a mac book pro with Big Sur. Is there a problem with that OS?
I have not been able to get past this point after numerous tries
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Welcome to the forums.
There's no difference between the trial and purchased versions.
You don't actually need to create a smartlist: one already exists.
If you look under Smartlists in the Playlists part of the tree, you will find one named "Audio -- Task -- Possible duplicates"
Please use that.
If you don't see a whole much of smartlists with names like that, you've deleted them. You can recover them by right-clicking (control-click for Mac) on the word "Playlists" in the tree and select "Add Stock Smartlists" from the menu that appears.
Good luck..
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Trying to find and remove duplicates is kind of complex. The smartlist that is referenced here is a decent start. But it's really just a simple first pass. To really dig into duplicates you have to do a lot more.
If your collection is big, you'll want to do a lot more; especially if you have a lot of music that was downloaded or acquired in a way that wasn't structured.
There are a whole lot of details to be considered here.
Brian.