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Duplicate titles
I have many compilation CDs and when I use the batch ripper, the new songs being ripped will replace the old songs with the same title, even if it is not the same artist. If I am using the CD ripper then I have to add a . or a - to the title of the song, otherwise it will overwrite the title already in the database. How do I resolve this?
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Re: Duplicate titles
This shouldn't be happening. I assume each compilation CD has a unique name. And the songs being ripped within each album (which has its own folder) each have different names. Or are you saying that within a single compilation CD there may be songs that have exactly the same name? But even this shouldn't matter, because you should setup the ripper to give a file name that includes track number. So even with same name, the file names would be:
01 - songA.flac
02 - songA.flac
Even though both have the same title, the file name includes the track number. Be sure you've set up dynamic naming properly to create subdirectories, and use track no as part of file name.
I use this as my dynamic naming string. Deals automatically with compilations and multidisk CDs.
Code:[IFCOMP]Compilations\[album] [IFMULTI] \Disc [disc][]\[track]-[title]-[artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album][IFMULTI] \Disc [disc][]\[track]-[title][]
Last edited by garym; July 01, 2013, 10:43 PM. -
Re: Duplicate titles
garym, thanks for your answer. I am ripping the CDs to FLAC files with the title of the song only as the file name, so as you may imagine, there are going to be many songs by different artists in different albums that turn out to have the same name. Examples such as Yesterday by the Beatles, interpreted by many others, The way you look tonight by Frank Sinatra and many others.
I'll change the dynamic naming string to include track numbers as you suggest.Comment
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