Non-duplicate albums still appear as duplicates

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Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number)

Mac mini MD388, macOS Catalina, Roon 1.8 (build 763)

Description Of Issue

After I identified the duplicate albums, made one of them primary and deleted the other, these primary albums are still showing up in the duplicates in Focus. How can I remove them from duplicates?

It seems to me that when an album is marked as a duplicate and I decide to make it primary and just click “Make primary”, this action doesn’t remove this album from the duplicates.

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+1 I have the very same issue, have rebooted core but false duplicates still exist. Next is to try deleting the albums listed as duplicates and then re-add them to see if they still show as duplicates.

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confused. what is the definition of “duplicate”?

not trying to be snarky, but if you have two of the same album in your library (say, one ripped and one Tidal, etc…), what’s the difference between a “non-duplicate,” a “false duplicate” and a “real duplicate”?

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Just open Albums – Focus – Inspector – Duplicates. And you’ll see what it means.

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yep, I get when there are two albums in one’s library that are the same, that is a duplicate.

But the previous post speaks of “false duplicates.”

He’s going to delete and re-add the albums “to see if they still show up as duplicates.” Why would they NOT?

(or maybe there are NOT two albums, and he’s just going to delete and re-add ONE album, to see if the “false duplicate” identification goes away.) I’m realizing this is the thing. So, nevermind!

(I haven’t experienced this “false duplicate” thing so that’s why I was confused.)

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Please refer to the first post from Alexander, I to had albums which were true duplicates, eg. 2 copies of the same album, I initially marked one as primary which meant it has preference in the library. I then decided to delete the duplicate of this album. In doing so the duplicate should no longer show via focus. However focus still shows the primary as a duplicate and I am unable to remove the definition of primary, even although the duplicate has been deleted. The only option left is to also delete the primary and then re-add to see if it makes any difference.

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Yes, exactly. See my original post. After we have chosen one album to make it primary and deleted another one, that one primary album still remains marked as a duplicate.

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so, when you are looking at the albums in that view (Albums – Focus – Inspector – Duplicates), it shows two albums? That are the same?

So, two copies of the same album, format, service, bitrate, source, etc…? (I have plenty of duplicates, but one might be on my hard drive, and one might be a streaming version. Or one might be Qobuz and one Tidal. Or one 16/44 and one 24/192, etc…)

Just curious if you’re seeing two of the EXACT SAME FILES in that view. (not sure if you’re talking about seeing duplicates of streaming files or local files or what.)

But yes, I’m seeing duplicates, as for many, I have both a ripped CD and a Tidal/Qobuz version in my library. I tested getting rid of the dupes for a few… If i delete one while in that view (like, right-click, and then remove from library), the duplicate goes away.

However, I were to go to the album itself, and remove the streaming version from library, then go back to duplicates, I still see my ripped version in that view as a duplicate, even though I’m not seeing the tidal version in there. Even when I back out and go back in to focus, that “false duplicate” is still there.

Now, it DOES NOT say “duplicate” on the album page

I forced a rescan and no change.

However, I restarted the roon server, and the dupe went away.

I see that a reboot of your server didn’t work for you, but it worked for me.

odd.

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Hi Chris, the duplicates that I was seeing via focus were duplicates of albums on my local drive, the only difference was that one was 24/96 and the other 16/44.
I have now deleted and re-added the remaining album that was marked as primary and it is no longer listed as a duplicate.
One thing to note though is that when both albums were in the library I deleted the duplicate manually rather than deleting via the roon app.

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Hi @Alexander_Bashlaev

Can you share some screenshots of what you’re seeing here for one example of this?

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Hi @dylan,

It’s really easy. Just add two versions of an album, make one of them primary, delete another one and you’ll get the remaining duplicate.

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