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I am not sure whether this is a bug or bad metadata on the source files and/or whether this has been previously reported.

I was importing a batch of MP3 albums and have noticed that duplicates are not detected during the import. Had a few mis-named albums in different sub-directories. When I imported the top directory, it loaded them twice (I had checked the 'do not import duplicates' box). This does not happen if that album was already previously imported.

From my point of view, the 'export' bug is worse. I set focus, selected 'all', hit 'export'. What I received was :

Artist-name-directory
Album-name-directory
01 TrackA.MP3
01 TrackA1.MP3
02 TrackB.MP3
02 TrackB1.MP3 ....

I.e. Tracks are doubled.

Moral of the story for me : import in smaller batches; be careful before hitting 'accept & import'

When I have seen that behaviour it has been due to there being 2 albums that are very much the same but not identical. Therefore import does not detect duplicate BUT when you export and see the files exported into folders by album name they appear to double up.

I expect that you imported a large folder and didn't do much validation of the import. You can either do that as you import or afterwards....either way it has to be done to prevent the result you see.

hope that helps

Thanks Nick.

I gathered as much. It would have been nice if it had duplicated the album (I.e. AlbumA; AlbumA-1) instead of the tracks with a '1' at the end.

I guess so, but, the system has to assume that the album title you have in the library is the one you want, so, if you did want to keep the duplicates you could differentiate in some way

e.g. ALBUM A (MP3) and ALBUM A (FLAC)

That it stores by album title is pretty standard with most ripping and storing solutions.

Anyhow, export and restore are features of the wishlist thread so we can make recomendations there.