Duplicate files not being converted

[schmitty]

Hi Spoon,

I purchase music from the iTunes store, and regularly purchase clean and explicit versions of releases and tracks, which are differentiated by a ' 1' on the end of the filename. For some reason dBpa doesn't seem to recognise the duplicate files.

[Dat Ei]

Re: Duplicate files not being converted

Hey schmitty,

could you please describe what you try to do in detail, what do you expect and what is the result?


Dat Ei

[Spoon]

Re: Duplicate files not being converted

If you have set the naming to something like:

[artist] - [title]

Then both versions of the tracks will have the same values for these and you will be left with just 1 file.

[schmitty]

Re: Duplicate files not being converted

If you have set the naming to something like:

[artist] - [title]

Then both versions of the tracks will have the same values for these and you will be left with just 1 file.

The naming scheme is the same as iTunes
[IFCOMP]Compilations[][IF!COMP][album artist][]/[album]/[IFMULTI][disc]-[][track] [title]

[Dat Ei]

Re: Duplicate files not being converted

Are your audio files under Control of iTunes? Are you sure it isn't iTunes, which appends the 1 to the filenames?


Dat Ei

[Spoon]

Re: Duplicate files not being converted

Title is not the filename, if you have added '1' to the filename it will not be in the title.

[schmitty]

Re: Duplicate files not being converted

Are your audio files under Control of iTunes? Are you sure it isn't iTunes, which appends the 1 to the filenames?Dat Ei

Yes, they are. iTunes appends the ' 1' to the end of the filename, as the title is the same whether it is an explicit or cleaned version.

[Spoon]

Re: Duplicate files not being converted

You would have to change the title to include 'Explict'