massive duplicate of podcast items

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dnats
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massive duplicate of podcast items

Post by dnats »

Hello MediaMoney,
There's a major problem with MM handling podcast item. It duplicates a massive ammount of items. It all seems very random to me. It duplicates a couple items in each podcast subscription.
Here's a sample of it:
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As you can see, there are 675 items of that same entry. And there are several of them that get duplicated. As a result, my database's filesize had ballooned very large.

I tried to delete them in MM but they reappears after a refresh. Then I tried an external database tool and it couldn't delete those entry due to a "IUNICODE" error:
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Please help me to correct this problem.
Lowlander
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Re: massive duplicate of podcast items

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jsibley
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Re: massive duplicate of podcast items

Post by jsibley »

Was this ever resolved? I am having what seems to be a similar issue. Sometimes the files are identical length, sometimes they vary by a small amount, and sometimes they are quite small (e.g., 32kb). It is happening with several different podcast feeds.
jsibley
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Re: massive duplicate of podcast items

Post by jsibley »

It has been almost 2 weeks since I asked if this has been resolved? Since I am still seeing duplicates, I am revising my question to whether there has been any work done on this issue and whether there is specific data you need?

Thanks.
Lowlander
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Re: massive duplicate of podcast items

Post by Lowlander »

The original poster never replied and in the other topic the last post is a request for a debug log.
pacman

Re: massive duplicate of podcast items

Post by pacman »

I've had this problem too and have had to (a) delete all my podcasts downloaded by MediaMonkey and (b) use Juice for downloading and managing podcasts.
wtanksleyjr
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Re: massive duplicate of podcast items

Post by wtanksleyjr »

The problem where multiple partial files would be downloaded might have been fixed -- I don't see it anymore in 4.0.7. The problem where non-downloaded episodes get duplicated is very hard to reproduce, I think because it's actually a problem in the feed that podcasters try to fix quickly.

There's another problem I'm trying to characterize -- it seems that sometimes, a downloaded Song is assigned an IDEpisode (and thus identified as a podcast episode), but is then later assigned an IDEpisode of -1. The result is tens of identical episodes downloaded (but marked as independent songs). When this happens, all of the episodes have identical Date Added stamps.
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