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[hit_ny]

copy the line below to your clipboard, open MC, press ctrl+f then press ctrl+v

~dup=[name] p="special names"

I've been looking for something similar, using the PN to tell me whether i had any dupes before i imported into the library.

~dup=[name] ~d=t

Comes up with nothing. I have 2 tracks in PN currently that are defnitely in the library.

So i tried

~dup=[name] ~d=mt

Now i have a list of all dupes in the library+PN

i had to add the artist name from PN to reduce it

~dup=[name] ~d=mt ar="artist from PN'

Now i got the 2 tracks + all dupes for that artist.

Ideally i would like to see only the 2 tracks that are are present in the library along with matching items of PN without the other dupes from that artist.

The last exmaple was for an artist album. What if it were a Various Artists compilation ?

i guess the question is how to find all dupes of what is is PN currently (not imported yet) that match with the library ?

[hit_ny]

I guess the question is how to find all dupes of what is is PN currently (not imported yet) that match with the library ?

Got it I think ?

~d=mt [Media Type]=[Audio] ~dup=[Artist],[Name] -playlistid=="possible duplicates" ~sort=[Name],[Date Imported]-d

this is using the default smartlist "possible duplicates" in Playlists->Auto Smartlists (music)

*EDIT* won't show dupes if there are more than 1 for a track

[hit_ny]

The best i can do with this b4 giving up

[Media Type]=[Audio] ~d=mt ~dup=[Artist],[Name] ~sort=[Date Imported]-d,[Artist],[Name] ~n=30

This will show if there are any dupes in the library right at the top of the list. The PN tracks have a brown colour icon for not imported.

I used the arbitrary limit of 30 as this gives a screen full of tracks. I can't see any way to limit the other tracks from the list that are dupes but have nothing to do with the tracks from playing now.

There also seems to be no way to filter out only PN tracks that are dupes. Using Volume name etc yields nothing as well as Date imported. It appears that not imported tracks in PN can only be included using database location modifier and you can't include any filtering of their attributes in a smarlist..  It's like MC knows about PN tracks but not enough.

The strange thing is if you use the search dialog (top right)  it is possible to filter them out but you can't do it in a smartlist.

The main problem is there is no way to find duplicates given a set of tracks and only show those tracks. You can find all duplicates but no more.

[hit_ny]

Using the newly acquired knowledge about Includes (matches All)

Create a playlist "playing Now" which has ~d=t (database location playing now)

and a second "duplicates in PN"
+p="possible duplicates","playing now"

This will show all duplicates in the library of what is in playing now. But it only works if what's in playing now has been imported already.

Still looking for a way to do with unimported tracks in PN.