Duplicate Handling

[superrrr]

First of all, thank you to anyone who's contributed to Moode!
Great piece of software.


My question:

Most of my tracks show up as duplicates. Having a 20+ year old digital library, sometimes duplicates occur, for that matter. Is there a way to cause Moode to examine duplicates it finds, and only present one copy if the files are the same (size, name, tags, etc)? I don't need it to alter my files, just to ignore duplicates when listing/playing. In the case of duplicate name and tags, but different size, ideally, the highest quality file would be presented for playing. .

Thoughts? Many thanks in advance.

[the_bertrum]

I'm not sure I understand the situation.  If you have the same file with the same name, size, tags and so on, then surely the solution is to delete one of them?  There's no need to keep both, especially if your player were to hide one of them from you as proposed here, it's just clutter.  If you've managed to get lots of files in this situation (you say most of your files are duplicated, I won't guess how that came about) then there are tools and scripts a-plently that can find candidates for you to remove.
If on the other hand, your files are the same name and size and so on, but are in different albums (one on the studio album, one on a best-of for example), then actually the tags should be different (different album name) and so they won't appear as duplicates.
For the case where there are files of different quality, again I wouldn't say these were not actually duplicate.  Personally, if I acquire a better quality version of a file I delete the lower quality one, but I know there are folk who like  to keep different quality files of the same recording.  If that's what you want, I'd suggest using different tags again to prevent them appearing as duplicates.  Perhaps append the quality to the album name, "dead good album [MP3]" and "dead good album [FLAC]" for example.