SBT albums have duplicate tracks .

[bencat]

I am a new user of the SBT and in many (but not all) of the albums in my music each track is shown twice and if played it will play each album twice. I have my storage which is a 1Tb USB HD attached to my lap top which is wired directly to my router and then there is a wired ethernet connection to the SBT which then feeds my music system digitally in to my Dac.

I have done a complete clear of the cache including album and tags . Then I have done a complete clear and rescan of the Library but the duplicates still appear. Thye are not in the idividual files on the HD . all of my current music is in flac and all tags seem to be fine and everything plays but it is just annoying that I have these duplicates. Does anyone know what the problem is and how I first stop it happening and then get rid of the duplicates.

Any advoe would be appreciated .

[AnthonioBEL]

When I started with Squeezebox years ago, I had the same problem.
It turned out that (unbeknownst to me) I DID have duplicates for every single song. These were in the album-folders, so an album with 11 tunes, actually had 22 files in it.
Because I used iTunes, I had never noticed before.

The issue can also be caused by having your Squeezebox music in one place, and a second place for any iTunes music. Using the "use iTines" feature, then creates duplicates.

Another cause could be that there is a shortcut in your musicfolder guiding the LMS scanner to a second location where you keep duplicates.

These are the main causes for this issue I could think of.

[bencat]

Thanks for your replay I will have to look at some of these. However as I only have files in Flac format I do not use iTunes and do not have it on my Laptop so thath can not be the cause of this problem in my case . Will try and look at the others. I have checked the actual folders and each case there is only a single set of tracks they are not duplicated . Thanks though for the suggestions will look at the others when I get home tonight .

[AnthonioBEL]

The quick way to test is simply to type a songs file-name (Of a song you know is duplicate) into the searchbar in your Windows start-menu or Mac Finder... See if more instances pop-up

[aubuti]

Do you have any playlists? Usually they have the filename extension .m3u, but other extensions are possible. Several people have been tripped up by this, especially if their ripping program is set to automatically create a .m3u playlist that is simply the album tracks in order. If that's the source of your problem then the usual solution is either to delete the playlists, or move them to a folder that is not nested within your main music library folder.

Another aid when diagnosing the problem is to use the LMS web interface to drill down to the track details. Pick any of your duplicates and drill down to the file location and I'll bet you'll find the difference.

[HumanMedia]

Happens to me when I split one combined flac up into individual files, but forget to delete the original combined file.
It looks like there is only one set of files, but SBT sees inside the combined file and lists those as well as duplicates.

[Mnyb]

Happens to me when I split one combined flac up into individual files, but forget to delete the original combined file.
It looks like there is only one set of files, but SBT sees inside the combined file and lists those as well as duplicates.

Yes LMS reads cue sheets, embedded or asnthier own file , so *.cue files can give you duplicates

Edit: another way to get dupes is if your playlist has a different path to the same file .
For example you mount your library with unc path \\music\bla\bla and then your playlist have x:\music\bla\bla or via shortcuts ?

[bencat]

I have looked at this a few ways and tried the following .

1) Delete Cache
2) Full Library clear and rescan
3) Change the USB Drive (I have three 1TB drives all with the full music folder on) Set the Library to use this new folder only , Delete Cache , Library clear and rescan .

None of this is changing this all the abums when viewed on SBT and on Squeezebox server on line have duplicates in them . However if I look in each of the folders in my music folder on HD the labums only have the correct number of tracks no duplicates . This has to be somehting in either the SBT or the Squeezebox server settings that is doing this . If it had just created ghost duplicates I would be fine with that but if you start an album from the 1st track it plays every track twice.

Having also reset the SBT and done a complete unistall and re install of a new copy of LMS I am just lost at what to do now . Is there any software I could run to change things in one go rather than have the tedious work of deleting track by track ?

[aubuti]

None of this is changing this all the abums when viewed on SBT and on Squeezebox server on line have duplicates in them . However if I look in each of the folders in my music folder on HD the labums only have the correct number of tracks no duplicates . This has to be somehting in either the SBT or the Squeezebox server settings that is doing this . If it had just created ghost duplicates I would be fine with that but if you start an album from the 1st track it plays every track twice.

Having also reset the SBT and done a complete unistall and re install of a new copy of LMS I am just lost at what to do now . Is there any software I could run to change things in one go rather than have the tedious work of deleting track by track ?

If you're sure that your problem is duplicate listings and not actual duplicates (as implied in your first paragraph above), then I don't recommend starting to delete anything "in one go", or you could end up with nothing in your library.

You mentioned clearing the cache, etc, but didn't say whether or not you had drilled down to look at the track info (as I suggested in post #5). It could simply be a case of LMS seeing two different paths to the same file, as Mnyb suggested in post #7. It could be UNC vs. drive letter mapping differences, or shortcuts, or something else that leads to the track duplication. But the info is right there in LMS if you look for it: use the LMS web UI and examine the details for each of the apparent duplicates, focusing especially on the file location. Then report back what you find.

EDIT: Also, it would help to know the answer to the question posed earlier about playlists, as that can be a source of apparent duplicates.