Eliminate Duplicate Albums/Tracks

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For many years I have used iTunes to manage my music collection.

Almost all of my music was, for many years, lossy mp3, m4a.

I have recently embarked on a process of re-ripping my CD collection to .flac (Perhaps I should have gone .alac, but ... reasons)

The .flac rips are saved under a seperate lossless/ folder structure.

This has left me with many instances of duplicate albums/tracks.

I need keep the lossy versions, as I continue to use the apple ecosystem, to manage and sync music to various iOS devices but, I would like to try and eliminate lossy duplicates when playing from Minimserver.

I could try and manually add each of the lossy duplicates to excludePattern, but this would be rather unwieldy (if it would work at all)

Another approach might be to re-structure the lossy duplicates by adding something to the album name that would allow bulk identification with an excludePattern, but that would not be my preferred option.

Has anyone else come up against this issue or have any suggestions ?