FLAC converted to MP3s shown as duplicate content -- why?

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:42 am

Hello all...

So I was curious -- I converted all my FLAC files to MP3s, and they are shown as having duplicate content with each other.

Reading what I could find on the subject, I would think they wouldn't show as duplicates, being a different format, and thus couldn't really contain the same sonic information, even if they were the same song.

Are files that are converted automatically tagged as having duplicate content, without the need for comparing them, then?

- Tim

Post by **Peke** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:36 am

MM is comparing Tag info when searching Duplicate contents, you got good point and it will be very usefull to have ability to exclude Different File Types in Duplicate content.

tbessie wrote:Are files that are converted automatically tagged as having duplicate content, without the need for comparing them, then?

They should be.

Post by **Lowlander** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:29 am

Yeah, I think they should be marked as duplicates. Anyway the duplicate function is an aid in deciding what songs you could delete. It's not a definitive authority.

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:08 pm

Peke wrote:MM is comparing Tag info when searching Duplicate contents, you got good point and it will be very usefull to have ability to exclude Different File Types in Duplicate content.

tbessie wrote:Are files that are converted automatically tagged as having duplicate content, without the need for comparing them, then?
They should be.

Hmm, that doesn't jive with the documentation. It says:

Duplicate Content
This displays all Tracks that are identical to one another in terms of the audio content (tags and other metadata are ignored). This feature only works for Tracks that have been 'Analyzed for Duplicate Content' when they were added to the Library. To do so, enable it in the Library Configuration menu, and then rescan your hard drive(s).

Which says it is NOT comparing tags and metadata.

... so what IS it comparing?

- Tim

Post by **Peke** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:41 pm

This is why you have Duplicate Titles. I was reffering more to that.
I missunderstaned you wrong.

Post by **jiri** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:15 am

You are right, there's a bug. After conversion MM thinks that content of source and target is the same, although it isn't (here we talk about actual encoded data in the file). This will be fixed in MM 2.5.2.

Jiri

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:25 pm

I should probably post these things in the proper, bug-reporting areas, but I'm never quite sure if something IS a bug or not.

- Tim

Post by **Lowlander** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:38 pm

Don't worry. Many bugs start out as something that needs help or is a wish.

FLAC converted to MP3s shown as duplicate content -- why?

FLAC converted to MP3s shown as duplicate content -- why?

Thanks, Jiri!