Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix 3.8.1 (2012-11-10)

[Bex]

How did you set up the query?

[Remco32]

They don't automaticly show up in the 'Tracks with same content' node? When I use the query of the pic, I only find Even Flow as a duplicate. Alive doesn't show up.

[Bex]

Only go for same Custom5 and also select Excl Unkown Custom5, and you should find what you want!

[Webcomedian]

I am getting a VAR error on line 16 with the VAR SDB when I run the script

[Remco32]

Only go for same Custom5 and also select Excl Unkown Custom5, and you should find what you want!

I did that, and only Even Flow is showing up as a duplicate. I don't get why Alive doesn't show up, the files are not that different from eachother.

[Bex]

Do you mean that they have the same PUID value in Custom5?

[flybob]

I"m itching to use your product, but the bottom of the "Custom Duplicate Search" popup window cuts off (or is hidden, or is out-of-view) below the "VBR/CBR" line, and is not resizeable or scrollable. I can see the entire frame of the window (all 4 sides) if i drag it a short ways to the top of the screen. And I can tab through the hidden elements (using my keyboard's "Tab" key), but I can't see what's selected below the cutoff, including "Bitrate" and any of the action buttons I see on your screenshot above. I want to keep the highest-bitrate duplicates and I don't see any other way than through this popup window.

So far no other prob's.

I had a random prob like the years ago with some other product, and it was corrected by installing a new font (that the program was written to use, but wasn't on my XP) so my XP didn't substitue its own larger, differently-formatted font, but I'd need to know which font to install to use that fix here.

Help a noob out? Thank you, thank you! I make great hot cocoa & am willing share.

WinXP, 1280x800 screen resolution, desktop font size: normal
Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix 3.7.4
MM 3.2.1.1297

Btw, I'm pretty sure fish are animals. =D

[Bex]

Hi flybob,

To reduce the size of the form in "Custom Duplicate Search" and "Find More from Same", you can remove fields you don't use in the options.

[Remco32]

Do you mean that they have the same PUID value in Custom5?

No, that's not what I meant. The PUID values differ. I'm just surprised that a song that looks almost the same doesn't get the same PUID value. I guess it can't be helped. Thanks for the support Bex!

[Bex]

No there's not much one can do, it's in the hands of MusicIP.

[smurfman111]

This is awesome!! Thanks so much!!

One HUGEEEEE feature that I would love and haven't figured out how to do yet would be to batch copy over any meta data (tags) from the non-keep dups group to the keep group. Just like how you can automatically merge playlists, play counts, and ratings, I would also like to paste over for example an Album title if the good "keep" version of the file is blank in the Album tag.

For example I have File 1: Don't Stop Believing by Journey with a bitrate of 250 and File 2: Don't Stop Believing by Journey with a bitrate of 128. So the script selects to keep File #1 because of the higher bitrate.

That is all fine and dandy except file #1 has the Album tag empty while File #2 has the correct album "Escape".

I would like to be able to copy any meta data (tags) that I pre-select from the non-keep dups file grouping to the good "Keep" files if those corresponding tags are blank in the "Keep" group. It seems like a mixture of the already implemented automatic merging of play count and ratings and the Copy/Paste metadata functions except for I want the Copy/Paste metadata function to be able to be done automatically batch style for the entire set of duplicates. Basically add the Copy/Past metadata functionality to the merging of play count, ratings, and playlists fuction already built in.

I hope this makes sense and would love any help on this. Maybe I can try and custom edit the script, or maybe you can already do this and I just don't know how.

Thanks in advance for any help and THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS AWESOME SCRIPT!!

-Shawn

[Bex]

Thank you, Shawn!

The problem with implementing what you are asking for is that many dupes can exist in the delete-node, for each single dupe you want to keep in the keep-node. I.e you have a ManyToOne-situation in which it isn't suitable to merge tags. e.g. What to do if you have three non-keep tracks all with three different genres/track#/AlbumName/etc?

One thing that you can do is to limit the search result to only display group nodes with TrackCount=2, then after you have split them up one delete-node and one keep-node, you can use Copy/Paste metadata since the tracks are sorted in the nodes so they correspond to each other. The rest with TrackCount>2, needs to be taken care of manually.

[kiwichick]

Hi there, I have a problem with the "Custom Duplicate Search" and the "Configure AutoSearches" windows being too long for my monitor and I can't resize them. If I drag the windows up as far as I can, then with "Custom Duplicate Search" I can just see VBR/CBR - with "Configure AutoSearches" I can't see past Date Added. Is there a fix for this? Cheers.

[Bex]

Hi kiwichick,

To reduce the size of the form in "Custom Duplicate Search" and "Find More from Same", you can remove fields you don't use in the options.

[kiwichick]

Hi Bex, Cool! Thanx for that.