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Questions / Re: Playlist has duplicate file instead of original
« on: February 18, 2020, 02:37:44 AM »
If the files ending in _1 are exact copies of other files in your library, it won't matter which one you remove.  And if the original copy had been removed, as you seem to think some of them have, you can use the file organization told to rename the files so there is no longer the _1.

This is an example of some of the issues....

And some files (to other songs) now that I look at them are exactly the same except a different album. From compilations etc. UGGHHH brb 3 years while I go 1 by 1.... lmao

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Questions / Re: Playlist has duplicate file instead of original
« on: February 18, 2020, 01:54:12 AM »
Thanks for the clarification. I suppose the easiest way to delete all the xxx_1.mp3 files would be to do a custom search using the criteria Filename contains _1 and once the search returns the results, select them all and delete them. But make sure the playlist does contain the original files (without the _1) before deleting. I suggest only deleting a couple at a time until you're certain it's doing what you expect.

My further question is how did those files get there? MB would only add the _1 to a file if the same filename already existed. How exactly did you put the tracks in the playlist? Did you copy them from within MB? Did you drag/drop from within MB? Or did you put them into the playlist using a file manager from outside MB?

That is a great idea to refine the search function with that.

It happened when I didn't realize what I was doing. It was so long ago that I don't remember what happened. Probably a combination of me not fully understanding what the "tools" in MusicBee were actually doing when I was trying to moving my music library to a different drive.

I think I am just going to have to go 1 by 1 in my playlists and make sure it is the original file.

I also have CBS and Flac of the same songs too, so I am not comfortable running the duplicate feature that comes in musicbee.

I have  75,000 songs and with that custom search it shows 7,500 songs with xxx_1

I was deleting duplicates before, and I probably deleted originals not realizing which file I was deleting. Another reason I can't just delete all the _1 files.

My motivation to go through my library has been low


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Questions / Re: Playlist has duplicate file instead of original
« on: February 18, 2020, 12:15:29 AM »
I'm not sure I understand. Playlists are only lists of the various tracks and the path to them. How have you determined that there are duplicate -files-? Does the playlist contain two copies of each track? Or is the same track referenced twice?

Basically I have 2 files in my music library.

The track that is in the playlist is the duplicate. I know this because when I look at the file name it is (Tupac - Blablabla_1.mp3) and not (Tupac - Blablabla.mp3)

So then I need to delete the duplicate which is obviously the file with the "_1" in it, but if I delete that file then the playlist loses that track. I could drag and drop the other file in the playlist from my music library but it would be a lot of work to go through thousands of songs in my playlist.

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Questions / Playlist has duplicate file instead of original
« on: February 17, 2020, 10:43:44 PM »
My library got all fudged up.

Right now my playlists have many songs that are duplicates of the original. So I can just remove duplicates because it will remove the song from my playlist.

Is there any way to automate my playlists to update to the original song name somehow? This way I can permanently erase the duplicate file without messing up my playlists?

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Questions / Re: Moved music library and playlists aren't repopulating
« on: December 03, 2019, 05:15:02 AM »
I guess my problem is that the files show they are in the correct drive, but when I go to play them I get an error that the source file track cannot be found. However when click YES to find the file I just need to select the song as it seems to know the folder it is in already just not the file.


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Questions / Moved music library and playlists aren't repopulating
« on: December 02, 2019, 09:57:56 PM »
I moved my music library to a different drive. My playlist file paths are still on the old drive and the songs are unplayable unless I manually change the file path for the song within the playlist. I have tried looking on the forum for something and nothing seems to be working. I appreciate any help, thanks.


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