How do I burn a duplicate track? [#6342]

[GRW]

I haven't had this issue before. When I have burned a CD quickly for the car in the past and not checked the playlist I have sometimes had a duplicate track there playing twice on the disc. Not an issue, just me not checking. I now WANT to have a duplicate track on the disc but any duplicates are getting left off the disc with only the first instance being recorded even though they both show in the playlist. I cannot find anything in the options and, I daresay, it will probably be soooooo easy to resolve!

The latest version when I updated has appeared to have replaced many of the settings I had previously hence these minor problems I have experienced.

[Peke]

Add <Auto Number> to mask as an prefix and you will get duplicates burned along with correct filename order in case player sort tracks according to filenames and not by tags.

[GRW]

Tracks are currently burned as <Auto Number>-<Title><Artist><Album>. This shows in the Disc Format box and also the Burn Playlist Tracks To box. Am I right in thinking this what you have mentioned. If so, this is the format I have used before which works and now doesn't. Hopefully I've just missed something else somewhere!

[Peke]

I just tried it and it worked flawlessly.

[GRW]

I've never had an issue before but now.....? This is about the 3rd thing that has changed without me altering any part of the program. It's so weird and annoying!

[GRW]

Bouncing back up to see if anyone else can help. Just to clarify (below is a pretend playlist):

001 The Killers-Somebody Told Me
002 Editors-Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
003 Coldplay-Life In Technicolour
004 Kasabian-Where Did All The Love Go
005 The Killer-Somebody Told Me

If I sent this playlist to burn, track 5 would drop off and not be available to burn. If I select the track in the playlist and send it to the same playlist and click OK to accept the duplicate, the duplicate will not be in available to burn. Some party discs start and end with the same track and I have had to through them away as they end with the wrong song!!!

Please help!

[GRW]

Can I just bounce this up one last time? How can something work fine for ages and then just not! Burning the same song on a disc more than once can't be that difficult can it? Please, any ideas. It can't be my wacky version only surely! Is there a setting somewhere? Its so infuriating when something should and did do something and then doesn't without warning!

[GRW]

If no-one knows the answer, maybe you might know this. Surely MM will burn an identical track it THINKS is different. Is there a way of copying that file and altering in some way without changing track name etc? Because altering using the properties would change the details of the one that wanted to be kept too.

[chrisjj]

I get the same failure on Data but not Audio CDs <<< note, Peke.

http://mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 34&start=0

[GRW]

I do hope this can be looked at somehow. When something used to work and now doesn't is infuriating. At least MM could ask before dropping the songs off a data disc.

[GRW]

I have found a way just in case anyone might be interested!

I have Media Monkey open and File Monitor checks the folder where the music is stored. I then open Windows Explorer and select the item I wish to burn more than once in the playlist. Copy the file and put (2) or something like that in the name. MM will add the duplicate to the library but it won't think it is a duplicate even though the tags are the same as it has a different file extension.

Of course, this is only useful for the odd track because if you wished it to happen for most of the library, having duplicates of everything is not good but this workaround works for me.