Removing duplicate songs with beatunes

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Bill Parkinson

31 Jan, 2018 08:25 PM

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How can I get Beatunes to ignore duplicates on different albums?

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on 31 Jan, 2018 08:25 PM

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    You can't via a configuration, but you can select the solution "Ignore this".

  2. 2 Posted by Bill Parkinson on 31 Jan, 2018 09:28 PM

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    It would be nice to have a setting in Duplicates that said ignore if the Album is different. Which would only list true duplicates. I am on Bea tunes 5.1, On windows 10, I am using a library that is not iTunes. Where would I find the “ignore this” solution

  3. Support Staff 3 Posted by hendrik on 01 Feb, 2018 08:09 AM

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    Whenever you select a duplicate issue, you get different options for resolving it. One of them is to ignore it in the future.

  4. 4 Posted by Bill Parkinson on 01 Feb, 2018 07:00 PM

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    Hi I use that one but it seems to often forget that I told it to ignore it. When I purchase albums I like to have the complete Album, this means that I often get the same song by the same artist on multiple albums. As long as the album name is not the same I don’t consider them duplicates. When Bea re-synched my library the other day I ended up with over 400 Duplicates of which only about 13 were what I would call real duplicates (same song on same album). Hence my desire for a setting that says “Only count as a duplicate if the album matches.”

  5. Support Staff 5 Posted by hendrik on 02 Feb, 2018 02:53 PM

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    Hence my desire for a setting that says “Only count as a duplicate if the album matches.”

    I understand. Currently there unfortunately is no such setting, nor is there really any user accessible configuration for individual inspections. This makes it non-trivial.

  6. 6 Posted by ErikL on 04 Feb, 2018 10:36 AM

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    Hence my desire for a setting that says “Only count as a duplicate if the album matches.

    +1

    nor is there really any user accessible configuration for individual inspections

    User configurable inspection rules would be a great asset imho (Beatlets?) I hope you'll find time to add this in some future version.

  7. 7 Posted by shraden on 18 Nov, 2019 02:38 AM

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    I'd just like to +1 this suggestion. This would make BeaTunes much more useful for me as a media management tool.

    Hence my desire for a setting that says “Only count as a duplicate if the album matches.”

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