erland wrote: > Do you know if you have musicbrainz tags on your music files ? > > MusicBrainz change philosophy a couple of years ago so the same song on > multiple albums got the same identity and this can cause duplication of > entries in the TrackStat database tables. There is an "Enable > musicbrainz tags" option in TrackStat that can be used to disable the > musicbrainz related logic if this is what's causing the problem.
I have musicbrainz tags enabled and have gone into pains of putting musicbrainz ids on as many of my tracks as possible (unfortunately I've not managed to figure out how I can submit those ones that are not yet in the MB database, so I still have some without, but most of the duplicates that I mentioned above have an MB ID (that's how I identified them: I sorted the table by MB IDs). erland wrote: > > To get rid of the duplicates, I think it should be enough to use the > "Remove all data" option in TrackStat settings page in the > "Backup/Restore/Clear" section and after that restore the TrackStat > backup. The restore process happens in the background and can take some > time but it should only import one of the duplicate entries. If you want > to be sure you can get back to the current situation it might be a good > idea to shutdown LMS and take a backup of the library.db and persist.db > file in the LMS Cache directory before you clear and restore the > TrackStat data. So you are saying that it I can go ahead and edit the XML file in Excel, save it and import it in Trackstat? Great! But since this will be a couple of hours of work (i.e. deleting about 56000 duplicates), I'd like to make sure first that TrachStat is not going to then start producing duplicates again. It seems to me that it is currently doing so every night (or every night it becomes visible in the trackstat backups) since the size of these backups is growing steadily every day. Why should that behaviour stop once I import the the cleaned backup? I sense I need to do something with the plugin too... *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
