Best solution for seeing / managing duplicates ?
Reply #15 – 2008-01-06 19:09:44
And what is considered by Facets as multiple artists ? What are the separators understood by Facets ? None. Facets doesn't separate any values on its own, the tags have to be written this way in order for this to happen. If you enter "Pop; Rock" (note the semicolon) into the genre field of foobar2000's properties dialog, the result is not a single genre field with "Pop; Rock" written to the audio file, but two independent ones. One genre="Pop", and one genre="Rock". Now if you use %genre%, for example in the playlist, those two values are listed comma-separated as "Pop, Rock". That's just a representation, not how they are stored in the file. But since the whole point of tagging your files this way is to get two separate genres, both album list and facets offer a special syntax to properly display them as separate items. Values with "&", "and", "feat.", and so on are kept as they are.So, well, I don't know where this +18 paths difference can come from... Well, again, either from a single file with multiple artists and without an album artist tag, or from multiple files in the same folder which have different artists but no common album artist tag. There is no other explanation.So I'd prefer if Facets could tell me that I have 6 times this song, regardless of the brackets ( (Live), (Unplugged), (Acoustic), etc.) You could remove the text in brackets from display by using a column pattern like this:$if2($cut(%title%,$sub($strchr(%title%,'('),2)),%title%) But we are getting to a point where fuzzy comparison mechanisms come into play, and that's something I wouldn't want to add to facets, because it is, as you have already pointed out, about showing exact results. I guess anything that goes beyond this should rather be handled by a solution that specializes in finding duplicates.