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Remove Duplicate from Playlist

I am running foobar2000 v1.6.11
This there a way to remove duplicate songs from a playlist?

Re: Remove Duplicate from Playlist

Reply #1 –
Edit->Remove duplicates

Re: Remove Duplicate from Playlist

Reply #2 –
Thanks for that reply.  I did that and see a strange response.   I have multiple playlists so I did this while the one in question was open, it is also an auto update playlist.  The remove duplicate is now longer available (greyed out) so Foobar must think that it removed the duplicates, but they are still there.  See attached - Song in this case is Free Bird.  To check to see if the auto update feature was working I changed the Title tag to FreeBird (no space) and it updated immediately.    You can also see a few other dups on the screen shot.  Thanks for any help

Re: Remove Duplicate from Playlist

Reply #3 –
1. AutoPlaylists can not be edited.
2. That's because "Remove duplicates" doesn't remove all duplicates. :)

Or better said... what do we call duplicates? 2 tracks named the same are not considered duplicates by Foobar, even if they have same artist and date... because, well... Foobar only considers duplicate the same physical file.

That, along the Autoplaylist feature leads to problems in libraries which contain multiple versions of the same song, different versions of the albums, same song in different format (mp3 & flac), etc. for jazz tracks this is a nightmare since every release names the same song differently Xd

Since I got tired of that in my daily usage, I created a Remove duplicates tool which uses configurable tags and RegExp. Can be found on these scripts:
https://github.com/regorxxx/Playlist-Tools-SMP

Requires SMP.

Re: Remove Duplicate from Playlist

Reply #4 –
Quote from: daveb30 on
I am running foobar2000 v1.6.11
This there a way to remove duplicate songs from a playlist?

The reality is that for your use case you must do this manually.  Foobar2000 does not have built in support to manage duplicate music across different albums.  It does not exist.  One way to do this includes flagging specific songs as ignore for selection.  This feature simply does not exist.  Even if it did exist, it would all be manual.  Attempting to automate it would be error prone and lead to incorrect results.

The way that I accomplish this is by creating m3u8 playlists that I then import containing unique songs that I wish to hear.  This meets my needs perfectly, and I use external tools to manage the maintenance of this.