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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: jbholtz on January 20, 2007, 12:00:37 am
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Anyone have a good way of detecting duplicates in the library? I have over 14,000 files (76.1 GB) and some music I have in there twice. Older ripping, different directory, etc... What I'd like is a way to list all files that have multiples (multiple defined as two files that share the same File Name/Artist/Album)
I was thinking I'd have to export the Library as an XML and then write a parsing script to do that
Thanks for any help.
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There is a smartlist that may help you.
Go to:
Playlists--> Smartlists--> Audio--Task--Possible Duplicates
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THAT'S AWESOME!!! MC12 ROCKS.
I Love it when a plan comes together
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After using the built-in Smartlist for "Possible Duplicates", I found I still had some dupes because of variations in either Artist or Album tags.
(i.e.: "Best of The Doors", "The Best of The Doors", "Best of Doors", "The Best of Doors" type of variations)
In an effort to locate these as well I made additional "Dupe-Finder" Smartlists which searched for files with matching
1- Artist, Track #, Name
(When sorted, allows for dupes with variation in [Album Name] to be easily spotted)
2- Album, Track #, Name
(When sorted, allows for dupes with variation in [Artist Name] to be easily found)
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It would be nice if you could find dups by a fingerprint of some sort
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There is a smartlist that may help you.
Go to:
Playlists--> Smartlists--> Audio--Task--Possible Duplicates
I don't have that Smartlist. I added stock smartlists and it wasn't in there either. I did have just a Duplicates smartlist in my library that's been upgraded from version 10 to 11 to 12. In fact a brand new install of MC 12 on a new machine didn't have any duplicates smartlists. What am I missing?
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I don't have that Smartlist. I added stock smartlists and it wasn't in there either. I did have just a Duplicates smartlist in my library that's been upgraded from version 10 to 11 to 12. In fact a brand new install of MC 12 on a new machine didn't have any duplicates smartlists. What am I missing?
Here it is (I just copied it from mine). It must be standard as I'm not smart enough to write it.
[media type]=[audio] ~dup=[artist],[name] ~sort=[artist],[name]
I also wrote one that helps me find real duplicates. By that I mean a single file that is the library more than once.
[Media Type]=[Audio] ~dup=[filename]
Randy
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[media type]=[audio] ~dup=[artist],[name] ~sort=[artist],[name]
That's the one I had called just Duplicates. Thanks for the other one too!
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It might be a good idea to put duration on the smartlist as the same name but not matching could indicate other version of the same song ie. Live version
Cheers Tangodude
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That's the one I had called just Duplicates. Thanks for the other one too!
Sounds like they changed the name of some of the stock smartlists.