I'm using 4.0.6.1501
I tried that exact mask 2 or 3 times, with the same results. My tags are definitely fine - I've been keeping them immaculately clean for years. There's certainly no reason for "jazz" to come up more than once.
Since then, I altered the mask to
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S:\AUDIO\MUSIC\<Genre>\<Artist>\<Album>\<Artist>-<Title>
, and now it seemed to work. Although I just found an empty folder structure that is a bit of a worry!:
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S:\AUDIO\MUSIC\WORLD\Stan Dryden\World\Stan Dryden\Yarramunua\World\Stan Dryden\Yarramunua\World\Stan Dryden\Yarramunua\World\Stan Dryden\Yarramunua\World\Stan Dryden\Yarramunua\World\Stan Dryden\Yarramunua\World\Stan Dryden\Yarramunua
I've been doing the autosorting on startup. I stay away from Tools > Auto-Organize Files (ctrl-R) method because it pops up a dialogue box that [also
] confuses me even further. It says "Duplicates and overly long filenames are highlighted. Please edit them". I realise now that this must be a poor choice of wording on behalf of the MM developers, because it also shows me all of my files with a bright yellow background. Naturally, I assumed that "highlighted" referred to the files with a bright yellow background, since that's how programs like MSWord highlight words (and that's what physical *highlighter* pens generally do: they highlight the background of things in yellow).
I realised now that if I scroll down long enough, I'll see some songs that are listed in red, so I guess it means those. Though what it actually wants me to do with them is unclear. The files aren't too long (there are longer ones elsewhere). It seems like it's identified some tracks as duplicates because their genre is spelt in Normal Caps rather than ALLCAPS. For example, it highlights these two files:
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S:\AUDIO\MUSIC\TRIPHOP\Massive Attack\Best of - Massive Attack\Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel.mp3
S:\AUDIO\MUSIC\TripHop\Massive Attack\Best of - Massive Attack\Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel.mp3
Now, obviously, these two files don't exist. Windows would not allow it. So why MediaMonkey picks this up, and what it wants me to do about it is a mystery. Any ideas?