>1. Goto "Extras/Duplicate Detector" in SBS web interface and start >detection. You need to hit the "Refresh" link to see the current >progress. > Running this now - will confirm how long it takes to complete against a library of 35871 tracks when its finished.
I note though that SBS reports I have 35852 songs, but Duplicate Detector says it is checking 35871 songs. Could this be because it is picking up non-track records (eg. playlist names, urls to other resources, etc)? >2. The default is to detect using the first 10000 audio bytes. > Not sure that it is going to be safe to take a sub-set of audio bytes (or at least without looking at other audio attributes too). There could be different versions of songs that are edited, eg. the first part of the song is identical, but one version is a bit longer. Perhaps the checksum also needs to include audio length, or take n bytes at the start AND n bytes at the end for the checksum calculation. I can think of one example, where I have an album in two formats - the original where songs are distinct tracks, and an enhanced version where songs are cross-faded. What about support for cue sheets? i.e. a single audio file that is chopped up into songs via a cue sheet - each song references the same audio file, but with a different sub-set of the data. Does the duplicate checker take account of this; treating each track as if it were a separate file chopped into segments? So far, it has detected 113 checksum duplicates (all incorrect duplicates) out of 6856 songs (Duplicates: 0). I looked at the results, and there are groups that I assume it believes are duplicates, such as: 64b80a25505a34d0c723dce617ced261-00d02343 M:\Music\Phil's Music\Blues\Canned Heat\Uncanned\01 - On The Road Again (Alternate Take).mp3 64b80a25505a34d0c723dce617ced261-0079bc14 M:\Music\Phil's Music\Blues\Canned Heat\Uncanned\02 - Nine Below Zero.mp3 [...in this case, all 45 songs on the album are listed...] 64b80a25505a34d0c723dce617ced261-001930fa M:\Music\Phil's Music\Blues\Canned Heat\Uncanned\45 - Huh.mp3 The first part up to the "-" is always the same, the second part of the number is different. What does this mean? Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
