tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/problems/13484-freezingbeaTunes: Discussion 2011-04-07T12:31:47Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/28599722010-09-11T10:28:29Z2010-09-11T10:28:29ZFreezing<div><p>Hi,</p>
<p>it looks like beaTunes 'hung' on moving a file to the trash. Was there perhaps an open Finder dialog? Does the file <code>/Users/jennytrick/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/My Favorite Highway/Unknown Album/02 Unaware.mp3</code> still exist?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/28599722010-09-20T06:10:30Z2010-09-20T06:10:30ZFreezing<div><p>No that file does not exist anymore</p></div>Jenny Tricktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/28599722010-09-20T08:49:08Z2010-09-20T08:49:08ZFreezing<div><p>I guess at this point, you don't know, if there was an open Finder dialog, right?</p>
<p>Anyhow.<br />
I've been working on some related issues and there is a current development snapshot out that might fix this issue. Could you please try <a href="http://www.beatunes.com/download/beaTunes-2-1-13-SNAPSHOT-osx.dmg">http://www.beatunes.com/download/beaTunes-2-1-13-SNAPSHOT-osx.dmg</a> and let me know, if you are still experiencing any issues?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/28599722010-09-21T01:59:59Z2010-09-21T02:00:00ZFreezing<div><p>Thanks I downloaded 2.1.13 but it doesn't seam to be recognizing any duplicates</p></div>Jenny Tricktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/28599722010-09-21T07:36:28Z2010-09-21T07:36:28ZFreezing<div><p>Can you give an example?<br />
Are both files that you deem to be duplicates enabled (i.e. is that little checkbox in front of it <em>on</em> in iTunes)?</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/28599722010-09-22T04:02:14Z2010-09-22T04:02:15ZFreezing<div><p>I took a screenshot of what happens, as you can see on the left there are duplicate "1000 julys" by third eye blind and duplicate 11PM by nickasaur. I went into preferences and the duplicates option is enabled.</p></div>Jenny Tricktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/28599722010-09-22T08:00:23Z2010-09-22T08:00:23ZFreezing<div><p>Hi,</p>
<p>thanks for the screenshot. Indeed beaTunes misses those two duplicates.</p>
<p>Here's why:</p>
<p>In the first case the song lengths differ by 10s. beaTunes has a built-in threshold for different song lengths. I.e. if the lengths are <em>too</em> different, the songs are considered two different songs, not duplicates. 10s is unfortunately just over that threshold (+-4s from the median of all candidates).</p>
<p>In the seconds case the difference is smaller, but the title is spelled differently enough to make beaTunes think this is a different song. The deciding factor here is the extra space before <em>pm</em>.</p>
<p>However, at least the second issue can be worked around, by fetching MusicIP PUIDs for all your songs. To do so go to beaTunes' <em>Tools</em> menu and select <em>Get MusicIP PUIDs</em>.</p>
<p>PUIDs allow beaTunes to determine whether a song is a duplicate or not regardless of its title. Unfortunately, as the PUIDs are created and administered by a third party service, I can't make any promises as to whether this works 100% or even in this particular case. But if you want to find duplicates, first fetching the PUIDs is a really good idea. And since your library isn't all that big, it won't take that long, either.</p>
<p>Generally, it's often a matter of opinion, whether a song is really a duplicate or just a different version of the same song.</p>
<p>I hope this explains the issue.</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendrik