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Questions / Is there any way of turning off the 'Duplicates' feature?
« on: October 24, 2022, 06:15:47 PM »
I have a number of albums where disc one, track one has a standard version of a track, disc two, track two has a different mix of the same track. MusicBee keeps marking them as duplicates. Fair enough. When I eventually spot that tracks have been moved to the Inbox I mark these tracks not as duplicated. I then move them from the Inbox and back into the library. This then creates three albums. One: the original - containing all tracks that were not considered duplicates. Two: the first disc tracks now marked as no longer duplicates. Three: The tracks on the second disc now marked as no longer duplicates. As I have my album view listed by 'Date added' this irritates me! So I then mark all the albums and set the date added date to the date I added that album.
This all seems rather hard work.
I've tried changing the options in the 'Manage Duplicates' window so that the options for determining duplicates takes account of the disc number, file size, play time and so on. This then seems to get lost when I close the Manage Duplicates window.
Is there a methodology of saving the options for duplicates such that duplicates across different discs, or different mixes on the same disc are not flagged as duplicates?
Is there a way of letting me manage duplicates and not have them hidden, deleted or moved to the inbox without me confirming it first?
Is there an option of keeping the date added (or possibly date modified) when items are maked as not duplicates then moving them out of the inbox such that they are returned back to the original album?
Is there an option to have duplicates marked before ripping them from the CD so that I can decide if they are duplicates or not and then 'unmark' them as duplicates as required once and for all?
I'd really appreciate any assistance that can be offered. Some of the times I've had this problem, I end up exporting the files, deleting them. Re-importing them and then altering the date just to get them to return to the one (original) album.
This all seems rather hard work.
I've tried changing the options in the 'Manage Duplicates' window so that the options for determining duplicates takes account of the disc number, file size, play time and so on. This then seems to get lost when I close the Manage Duplicates window.
Is there a methodology of saving the options for duplicates such that duplicates across different discs, or different mixes on the same disc are not flagged as duplicates?
Is there a way of letting me manage duplicates and not have them hidden, deleted or moved to the inbox without me confirming it first?
Is there an option of keeping the date added (or possibly date modified) when items are maked as not duplicates then moving them out of the inbox such that they are returned back to the original album?
Is there an option to have duplicates marked before ripping them from the CD so that I can decide if they are duplicates or not and then 'unmark' them as duplicates as required once and for all?
I'd really appreciate any assistance that can be offered. Some of the times I've had this problem, I end up exporting the files, deleting them. Re-importing them and then altering the date just to get them to return to the one (original) album.