Eliminate Duplicate Albums/Tracks

[schliden]

(24-05-2020 15:19)simoncn Wrote:  

(24-05-2020 13:23)schliden Wrote:  Rather that update the bulk of tracks using this method, perhaps I shud add something to the album name folder of only the lossy dupes and use excludePattern to ... exclude them ?

This would work, assuming you never want to see lossy duplicates in your MinimServer library.

Another option is to put all the duplicate lossy album folders under a higher-level folder named "lossydupes" and just exclude the "lossydupes" folder.

Simon, I added the following to my excludePattern: *[LD]

I then renamed one of the Lossy Dupe albums by appending the Album folder name with [LD], i.e. "/AC DC/Back in Black [LD]"

This seemed to work, as after a rescan only the flac version of that album appears.

I then added the same [LD] suffix to a couple of other artists/albums but they all continue to appear in minimserver after a rescan..

It's as though only one album is being matched ?

I am able to confirm in Kazoo using the track info option that the underlying path does contain an escaped version of [LD]