by ctmalecyclist » Thu Oct 09, 2025 3:55 pm
I just noticed to my chagrin, if I select Duplicate Songs, I was scrolling thru the list and since normally you can use CTRL to select single items from each set of duplicates, I could go thru and select 50 and then delete them, so I could move thru the list fairly efficiently. However, when I did this, instead of 50 titles it said 100. So I tried an experiment and i just selected one title, and it indicated 1 selected, but if I did CTRL - and selected a title, it said 2 selected, and if I hit Delete it would erase both the title I selected AND the one I wanted to keep.
Is this a bug or a feature? It would mean I would need to individually delete entries, going thru the "Yes I want to Delete" window every time, which would significantly slow me down.
I'm dealing with an issue some people have reported in the past, there mysteriously a lot of their music duplicates itself, with different Tags that affect the Song Titles. (ie: turning "1 MySong.mp3" into "Black Sabbath - 01 - 1 - MySong.mp3". Now that's done it's done, I want to delete the duplicates.
Also if anyone has used Clone Files Checker - is it worth the money if you have about a thousand mysterious duplicates to deal with.
I just noticed to my chagrin, if I select Duplicate Songs, I was scrolling thru the list and since normally you can use CTRL to select single items from each set of duplicates, I could go thru and select 50 and then delete them, so I could move thru the list fairly efficiently. However, when I did this, instead of 50 titles it said 100. So I tried an experiment and i just selected one title, and it indicated 1 selected, but if I did CTRL - and selected a title, it said 2 selected, and if I hit Delete it would erase both the title I selected AND the one I wanted to keep.
Is this a bug or a feature? It would mean I would need to individually delete entries, going thru the "Yes I want to Delete" window every time, which would significantly slow me down.
I'm dealing with an issue some people have reported in the past, there mysteriously a lot of their music duplicates itself, with different Tags that affect the Song Titles. (ie: turning "1 MySong.mp3" into "Black Sabbath - 01 - 1 - MySong.mp3". Now that's done it's done, I want to delete the duplicates.
Also if anyone has used Clone Files Checker - is it worth the money if you have about a thousand mysterious duplicates to deal with.