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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: InflatableMouse on September 21, 2013, 03:05:14 pm

Title: Find duplicates of album titles removing (..) [Solved]
Post by: InflatableMouse on September 21, 2013, 03:05:14 pm

Using this to find duplicates:

[Track #]=1 [Disc #]=<=1 ~dup=[Album],[Album Artist /(auto/)] ~a ~sort=[File Type],[Album Artist (auto)],[Date (year)],[Album],[Track #],[Disc #]

But since I've been adding things like (remaster) or [MFSL] to album titles I'm no longer find duplicates.

I'm not sure how I can do this in that expression? The addition is always between (..) or [..].

Thanks for the help!

Title: Re: Find duplicates of album titles removing (..)
Post by: MrC on September 21, 2013, 03:43:27 pm

You'll need to create a custom field that modifies Album, such as Album (base) which is calculated to strip away the variant:

    Regex([Album], /#^(.+?)((\s*\[[^]]*\])|(\s*\([^)]*\)))?$#/, 1)

and use [Album (base)] in your duplicates smartlist query.

Title: Re: Find duplicates of album titles removing (..)
Post by: InflatableMouse on September 21, 2013, 04:19:08 pm

Uhm ...

Did you mean create a new calculated field [Album (base)] and use the expression Regex([Album (base)], /#^(.+?)((\s*\[[^]]*\])|(\s*\([^)]*\)))?$#/, 1)?

Because that works but I can't seem to use that new field in ~dup=[Album (base)],[Album Artist /(auto/)]. When I try that via import expression, MC removes that field and leaves me with [Album Artist /(auto/)] only?

Edit: i think i got it, I need to escape the parens :P.

Title: Re: Find duplicates of album titles removing (..)
Post by: MrC on September 21, 2013, 04:21:07 pm

Yes, that's what I meant.  Sorry.  Corrected.

Title: Re: Find duplicates of album titles removing (..)
Post by: InflatableMouse on September 21, 2013, 04:23:26 pm

Nope, escaping doesn't work. The field is not selectable.

Title: Re: Find duplicates of album titles removing (..)
Post by: MrC on September 21, 2013, 04:48:28 pm

Sometimes after adding a new field, you have to restart MC to get the rest of the UI to see the field.

Title: Re: Find duplicates of album titles removing (..)
Post by: InflatableMouse on September 22, 2013, 01:41:31 am

Thanks MrC, its working now.

Had to restart Media Server as well, I tend to forget that's running.