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Deleting Duplicates

#1

Hello, I would like to ask 2 questions on deleting duplicates with Jaikoz. My aim is to delete identical songs regardless of release date, i.e. a live and a studio version would not be duplicates, the same song released on the original album and on a best hits would be. That said here are my questions:

  1. Should I use have the same MB id or the same Acoustic id or both?
  2. After the first run of deletion, Jaikoz continues to find dupes in a decreasing number for, say, 5 or 6 runs before not finding anymore. Is this because if there are 5 duplicates it deletes just the lower quality one for each run? Is there a way to delete all but the best quality dupe song in one run?

Thanks a lot!

#2

[quote=Mike1961]My aim is to delete identical songs regardless of release date, i.e. a live and a studio version would not be duplicates, the same song released on the original album and on a best hits would be. That said here are my questions:

  1. Should I use have the same MB id or the same Acoustic id or both?
    [/quote]
    Selecting It has the same MB Id and Acoustid as another Song would do what you want except that MusicBrainz often has multiple recording ids when in fact they shouldn’t. So using It has the same Acoustid as another Song might be a better choice, just review the dupl;icates found before actually saving the deletions.

[quote=Mike1961]
2. After the first run of deletion, Jaikoz continues to find dupes in a decreasing number for, say, 5 or 6 runs before not finding anymore. Is this because if there are 5 duplicates it deletes just the lower quality one for each run? Is there a way to delete all but the best quality dupe song in one run?[/quote]
No it should do as you want and delete all but one copy, not sure why you are getting this behaviour.

#3

Jaikoz has always behaved liked this, at least on my collection. Would you reccomend doing just one run of deletions, then?

#4

I dont’t know - I havent seen this behaviour.

It would help if you analyse what is getting marked as deletion second time that wasn’t matched first time.

#5

Today I actually looked into the duplicate deleting process and it seems that Jaikoz becomes less accurate with each run. I found no errors detecting duplicates in the first run, and an increasingly higher error percentage with each subsequent run. Is it possible you have not noticed this behaviour yourself?

#6

So…is Mike correct (“it seems that Jaikoz becomes less accurate with each run”) or…?

What’s the best strategy for including the safest deletion process in my auto-corrector?

#7

What’s the best strategy for including the safest deletion process in my auto-corrector?

#8

I’m not aware with any problem with the Duplicate deleter, there is no special process just add the task to autocorrecter and review changes before commtiting the deletes.