Eliminate Duplicate Albums/Tracks

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(25-05-2020 14:37)simoncn Wrote:  I have a TS119 as well. Great machine, last of the classic QNAPs!

Are you sure you did a rescan and not just a restart? After a change to excludePattern, you need to do a rescan.

I just noticed that you "added" *[LD] to excludePattern. What is your full setting of this property?

Yeah, mine has been rock solid for so many years... (touch wood..don't want to jinx it)

Definitely rescan's

minimserver.excludePattern = *[LD],_family,_harmonica,_inbox,_Kids,_musikcube,_niu_2stars,_niu_vette,_other,_playl​ists_meta,Comedy,xmas

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I just realised that I may have done a bad thing.

The machine that runs minimwatch was not available earlier, so I added *[LD], to the exclude pattern by directly editing minimserver.config on the NAS.

I was thrown by the fact that the first test MP3 album exclusion did not appear under AC/DC, and believed it had worked.

I just fired up the minimwatch machine and when I checked the properties, the exclude pattern was not visible.

I added it and.. after a very long rescan, the exclude is now working.

Sorry for wasting your time.

I guess, it is not safe to edit minimserver.config directly from command line ?