Bugzilla – Bug 1857
Duplicate tracks and missing tracks
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:19:57 UTC
I installed 6.1.1 last night and noticed, when browsing albums or clicking on album art, that almost every album shows several instances of duplicated tracks. I also have found one album that has missing tracks - most of them missing. I have not checked many albums but all that I havelooked at show a problem.
Correction - the comment about missing tracks should be ignored - my mistake. Dulpicates however are rife.
are you using itunes as well as music folder?
I am not using iTunes.
what does the songinfo page show for two duplicates, for their locations? look for mismatched case as one possibility.
The song info is a duplicate as well, same URL, etc. E.g. choosing an album, "Big Calm", tracks 3, 7, 9 and 10 are duplicates. Here is the info... The first track 3 is as follows: Title: Part of the Process Artist: Morcheeba Composer: Paul Godfrey/Ross Godfrey/Skye Edwards Album: Big Calm Genre: Trip-Hop Track: 3 File Format: MP3 Duration: 4:24 Year: 1998 Comment: �berStandard - UberNet.org File Length: 6,445,539 Bytes Bitrate: 194kbps VBR ID3 Tag Version: ID3v1.1 / ID3v2.3.0 Location: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\Single Artist\Morcheeba - Big Calm\03 - Part Of The Process.mp3 (Download) Date Modified: Saturday 2 October 2004, 16.41.57 The second track 3 is as follows: Title: Part of the Process Artist: Morcheeba Composer: Paul Godfrey/Ross Godfrey/Skye Edwards Album: Big Calm Genre: Trip-Hop Track: 3 File Format: MP3 Duration: 4:24 Year: 1998 Comment: �berStandard - UberNet.org File Length: 6,445,539 Bytes Bitrate: 194kbps VBR ID3 Tag Version: ID3v1.1 / ID3v2.3.0 Location: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\Single Artist\Morcheeba - Big Calm\03 - Part of the Process.mp3 (Download) Date Modified: Saturday 2 October 2004, 16.41.57
Ah, looking more closely, (didn't see your hint about case at first) - yes, there are capitalisation differences - in the location ("of the" and "Of The"). The title is identically capitalised. The file iteself is not duplicated, "03 - Part of the Process.mp3" I use MP3 Tag Studio to casefix the tags and file names. Thoughts?
I am having the same issue with 6.1.1. I some times have three listings for the same track. I have checked all of the details down to file size and mod date and capitalization. All three are identical. I had duplicates on a particular album so I did the rescan and checked the box to clear the library before the scan. This ended with the triplicate items. I also have the same graphic showing as the cover art for all albums but this is not an issue for me, the multiple track listings is as it makes it tedious to play an entire album (have to add tracks one at a time.) Thank you
Dont know whether this is the same problem - but I'm also getting duplicates when I browse music However I think I've tracked the problem down - seems to be caused when an artist or album contains ab accented character (e.g. E accute, or a A with a circumflex) Hope this helps, Brad
Brad - are you also running Windows? Do you have playlists with those files in them?
Running Windows - and use iTunes to keep the music ordered. Some of the items do occur in a playlist - but I have noticed that if I rename an artist e.g. Changed Jose (with an accent) to Jose (without) and rescanned the music the duplicate entry disappeared Brad
Here's an example - its by a Welsh artist. You can see the duplicate items whenever an accent is included in the song title 9the same happens for artists and albums) Dail y Teim - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Mae Nhw'n Paratoi at Ryfel - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Abergeni - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Y Blewyn Gwyn - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Y Pedwar Cae - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Dechrau'r Dyfodol - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Ciosg Talysarn - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Y Dref a Gerais i Cyd - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Lleucu Llwyd - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Cerddwn Ymlaen - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Y W�n na Phyla Amser - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Y W�n na Phyla Amser - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Cwm Ffynnon Ddu - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Tra Bo Hedydd - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Laura Llywelyn - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Ffidl yn y To - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Hoffter Gwilym - Mynydd yr Heliwr - Nans o'r Felin - Hoffedd Jac Murphy - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd C�n i Wiliam - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd C�n i Wiliam - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd C�n y Medd - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd C�n y Medd - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd P�r Oslef - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd P�r Oslef - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Y Chwe Chant a Naw - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd Yma o Hyd - Dafydd Iwan ac Ar Log from Yma O Hyd
Sorry, I forgot to mention I am using the original Squeezebox, not SB2. Sorry, Craig
Yes accented and other characters such as /,()'-2 seem also to cause problems with duplicate thumbnails being generated with browse album art. I have put a lot of information about this in bug 1875. They are all to do with changes made to the tags vs. the file name. These two bugs most likely have a common cause.
Sorry to piece this together but I have more info. My music files are set up on a slave drive. The directory \Music Server holds all rock music files. I have subdirectories such as \music server\Jazz and \music server\classical and so on. The tracks in the subdirectories are not dupliated (or in triplicate for that matter). Only the files in the \Music Server directory are the one that have been tripled. Can I erase the previous scan? it seems as though the check box did not do the trick and just adds the new scan to the old.
Can those of you having issues please upload your slimserversql.db file? And state what OS you are using, if you are using iTunes or not, etc. Thanks.
I just tried to send my file but I got an error because it is over 16Mb. What are the instructions for submitting a file this large?
Created attachment 675 [details] Slimserversql.db file zipped Gee, why don't I compress it?!?
Using Windows XP SP2. I do not use iTunes. I have loaded the Quicktime software however I loaded the older version that does not include the iTunes software.
I've checked in a few changes which might fix this. If you are using Subversion, please sync your tree. Otherwise, they'll be in the 07-30-2005 nightly build. You'll want to wipe your db and rescan. Thanks.
If it would help I could send you one of the tracks that duplicates. Let me know if you want me to do this.
Dan - Yes this has fixed the this bug (duplicate tracks). It has also fixed bug 1875 (which is missing tracks/Duplicate album thumbnails). Good work!
marking as fixed.
To take advantage of the changes made in the 7-30 nightly build do I simply download the Slimserver software and install it? And the wipe of the db is doing the rescan with the "Clear Library Before Rescan" box checked? Or do I have to manually delete any files? Because, I did uninstall SlimServer, download it today (7/31) and I still have duplicate and triplicate tracks on albums. Am i missing a procedure?
Sorry to be sloppy about this. I found the nightly update page on the web site so I downloaded it and installed it. After the new scan I still have the extra tracks.