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Do you dedupe your library?

Reply #25 –
For the most part, yes I do. The revelation came when I found I had 11 separate copies of The Hollies "The Air That I Breathe". It's a nice enough song, but did I really need 11 substantively identical copies? I nominated one to the be "definitive" version (the one off of the original 1974 album), and deleted the rest. It felt a little like murdering my children, but in the end it was for the best.

One curious thing did result: I have a fair number of compilations of 1970s and 80s music (mostly from Time/Life, but lots elsewhere too). If it was a band I liked, I would have acquired the band's albums, and so in the de-duping process deleted the corresponding songs from the compilations. The net result: Folders of compiled tracks from bands I don't like. But it makes for a fun playlist -- track after track of crap.

Do you dedupe your library?

Reply #26 –
In praise of depuping his library, flaminio wrote that it gave him...
Quote from: flaminio on
Folders of compiled tracks from bands I don't like. ... track after track of crap.
...I wish you were in marketing. The world would be a more honest and entertaining place.

Cheers,
David.
 

Do you dedupe your library?

Reply #27 –
That is what those samplers are good for, I guess; getting customers to buy what they like - and when it is done, then they are left with duplicate tracks and unwanted tracks, right?