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pmarca

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question re detecting duplicate copies of an album
« on: October 29, 2006, 07:03:07 am »

Sometimes I accidentally rip the same CD twice, giving it the same artist and album name and often the same track names.  Is there a way to scan for duplicates -- e.g. albums that have multiple instances of the same track numbers?

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Re: question re detecting duplicate copies of an album
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2006, 09:32:49 am »

open media center, press the F9 key, from the rule drop-down, choose "audio -- task -- possible duplicates"

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Re: question re detecting duplicate copies of an album
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2006, 05:51:55 pm »

Thanks -- but I think I'm looking for something different -- instances where for the same Album and Artist, there are multiple instances of the same Track # -- 1, 2, etc.  In other words, the tracks may not have the same name, but where there may be two copies of the same album listed under the same Album and Artist anyway.

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pmarca

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Re: question re detecting duplicate copies of an album
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2006, 06:01:42 pm »

Never mind -- I figured it out, based on your pointer.

I use a smartlist with this filter:

[media type]=[audio] ~dup=[artist],[album],[track #] ~sort=[artist],[album],[track #],[name] -[Genre]=[Classical]

I can then build another one for only Classical that adds [composer] to the dup list.

Thanks!
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pmarca

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Re: question re detecting duplicate copies of an album
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2006, 06:20:59 pm »

Never mind -- I figured it out, based on your pointer.

I use a smartlist with this filter:

[media type]=[audio] ~dup=[artist],[album],[track #] ~sort=[artist],[album],[track #],[name] -[Genre]=[Classical]

I can then build another one for only Classical that adds [composer] to the dup list.

Thanks!


Replying to myself again...

That approach does generate some spurious results due to apparent concatenation of [album] and [track #] literally...

E.g. these two are flagged as duplicates when they are not -- "CD1" concatenated with "11" is being matched with "CD11" concatenated with "1".


Name   Artist   Album   Rating   Genre   Track #   Duration   Bitrate   File Type   Date   Filename

Track 11   Nat King Cole   The Complete Capitol Recordings CD1   ?   General   11   2:26   324   wma      R:\Music\General\Nat King Cole\Nat King Cole - The Complete Capitol Recordings CD1\Nat King Cole - The Complete Capitol Recordings CD1 - 11.wma

Track 1   Nat King Cole   The Complete Capitol Recordings CD11   ?   General   1   2:36   440   wma      R:\Music\General\Nat King Cole\Nat King Cole - The Complete Capitol Recordings CD11\Nat King Cole - The Complete Capitol Recordings CD11 - 01.wma


That's pretty funny, actually!
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