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Title: Double Artist Entries....Help!
Post by: h3dge on November 26, 2002, 05:13:32 pm
I installed v9 and now my library has double entries for certain artists....and here is the weird thing....some songs on some albums end up under one artist/album and other songs end up in the duplicate artist/album.  Still other songs are completely missed.  Here is a screen capture of the phenomena....notice that for 10,000 Maniacs, Alcatrazz, Barenaked Ladies, The Allman Brothers, etc, there are duplicates:

(http://www.wright.edu/~david.stuart/mj9.jpg)
Title: Re: Double Artist Entries....Help!
Post by: akmed on November 26, 2002, 05:37:10 pm
I had the same problem, multiple artist listings, it turned out to be trailing spaces that appeared during my first import.  Select all your files, right click and choose Tools-->Clean File Properties, then set the operation to clean leading and trailing spaces for artist and album fields.  That saved me a bunch of manual moves

Also, if you have a bunch show up in (multiple artists) category, do a search on the board for tips on how to clean that up, spellings, album names, etc. can trip it into thinking it's a compilation album.
--akmed
Title: Re: Double Artist Entries....Help!
Post by: nila on November 27, 2002, 01:37:52 am
Matt,
Could i possibly suggest that trailing and leading spaces are simply ignored as this might catch a lot of first time users out and I cant really see any particular use of anyone to have a space before or after an artist name.
Title: Re: Double Artist Entries....Help!
Post by: Marty3d on November 27, 2002, 02:18:53 am
Add my vote for Nila's suggestion :) It makes no sense at all to have leading/trailing spaces...if you don't count human errors that is :)
Title: Re: Double Artist Entries....Help!
Post by: graham131 on November 27, 2002, 03:07:16 am
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Add my vote for Nila's suggestion :) It makes no sense at all to have leading/trailing spaces...if you don't count human errors that is :)



I'll vote for that too.

Graham