by CosmicKnowledge » Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:06 am
Peke wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:35 pm
Hi,
Can you play both duplicate files and can you tell us if they point to same location on Phone.
Eg. Is it possible that you have duplicates due teh fact that same files are synced to internal Memory and External SDCard.
I'm having a similar issue. I'm using Autoplaylists such as Classical 3+, Classical 4+, Classical 5, where the numbers signify inclusion onto that playlist by the song's rating. There is overlap of files since Classical 3+ will naturally include anything in Classical 4+ and 5. When the device syncs, 3 copies of a file end up on the device under different filenames.
If a file exists across different playlists, how do you get MM not to make copies of the same file? The resultant Smartplaylist --> M3U8 conversion should point to the same filename rather than point to different duplicate files. A 300GB collection is consuming almost 1TB of space because of this and I can't sync except but to chop out a large number of playlists.
I noticed that when a song is used in various smart playlists, that the same file gets copied over to different named files on the device. So, if the song is used in 5 playlists, there are 5 different copies of that file on the device. This is happening quite a bit since my autoplaylists use ratings (e.g. Classical 3+, Classical 4+, Classical 5). Is there some way to make all the SmartPlaylist --> M3U8 conversions point to the same filename rather than pointing to different filenames? This alone could probably reduce the space required on the device by 200%-300%, since I'm having significant space issues on a 256GB SD card.
[quote=Peke post_id=464115 time=1578011748 user_id=213]
Hi,
Can you play both duplicate files and can you tell us if they point to same location on Phone.
Eg. Is it possible that you have duplicates due teh fact that same files are synced to internal Memory and External SDCard.
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I'm having a similar issue. I'm using Autoplaylists such as Classical 3+, Classical 4+, Classical 5, where the numbers signify inclusion onto that playlist by the song's rating. There is overlap of files since Classical 3+ will naturally include anything in Classical 4+ and 5. When the device syncs, 3 copies of a file end up on the device under different filenames.
If a file exists across different playlists, how do you get MM not to make copies of the same file? The resultant Smartplaylist --> M3U8 conversion should point to the same filename rather than point to different duplicate files. A 300GB collection is consuming almost 1TB of space because of this and I can't sync except but to chop out a large number of playlists.
[quote]
I noticed that when a song is used in various smart playlists, that the same file gets copied over to different named files on the device. So, if the song is used in 5 playlists, there are 5 different copies of that file on the device. This is happening quite a bit since my autoplaylists use ratings (e.g. Classical 3+, Classical 4+, Classical 5). Is there some way to make all the SmartPlaylist --> M3U8 conversions point to the same filename rather than pointing to different filenames? This alone could probably reduce the space required on the device by 200%-300%, since I'm having significant space issues on a 256GB SD card.[/quote]