FLAC files showing ghost duplicates

[gruff]

Hello, odd and noncritical issue I've come across, and haven't seen discussed anywhere (forgive me if so):

Scanning for Duplicate Content will show duplicates for some (not all) FLAC files, in two ways:

If the album has separate tracks, some (not all) of the tracks on the album will show has having duplicates with the exact same filename, but a length of only a few seconds. These files display when I go to the album display in MM. They do not appear in the folder in Windows Explorer. The album plays normally, and playing the short file makes the regular track play. Deleting the short file deletes the regular file (I found out to my chagrin ).

If the album is a single FLAC file, with cue and m3u files for the individual tracks, Duplicate Content will show it as all tracks being duplicates, but when I look at the album in MM, there are no duplicates. Nor are there any in Explorer.

Is this an issue others have come across, and is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance for your help.

screenshot of what I'm talking about:

[Lowlander]

Which Build (Help > About) of MediaMonkey are you using?

For the short length duplicates make sure you delete from Library only if they have the same Path as the normal length files.

[gruff]

Gold Version 2024.2.2.3222

It didn't actually occur to me to delete from Library only, I've never done that before, only deleted whole files. I think that's the answer I need! Thank you very much. Still strange that it's happening though.

[Lowlander]

Are you saying this issue started on MediaMonkey 2024.2.2 or could it have happened on an older release?

[gruff]

It could have happened in an older release but I don't know if it did, this is the first time I've seen the issue, and the first time I've used Duplicate Content in a few years - I don't recall noticing it back then but I might have missed it.

[Lowlander]

If you can reproduce the issue happening on MediaMonkey 2024 we can troubleshoot, until then it's assumed it may have happened previously.

And the CUE files showing as duplicates should be fixed in MediaMonkey 2027 alpha as: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=22117

[gruff]

I mean it's happening in 2024 now. That screenshot is from yesterday.

[Lowlander]

Which of the 2 issues?

[gruff]

The issues I posted about in OP. I noticed them for the first time a couple days ago when I started using Duplicate Content for the first time in probably two years.