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Hi everyone,i have recently transfered all my discs to hd.So i now have alot of dupes.
I am using kj file manager to organise everything.
If for instance i delete disc id's for the Sunfly range and just label them SF,i could then see
all my dupes and delete the ones i dont need.
Have i got all this correct or is there a better way.
Thanks Steve

Why delete anything off your hard drive? If singers come up and ask for a different version, it's there. Delete the dups from your book.

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I agree with Lonman. Not only that, but if you have a corrupted file for one of your song tracks, or just a bad file in general (garbled word-swipes), you can always pull up one of your dupes in a pinch.

Steve that is EXACTLY what I did with KJ File Mgr..........HOWEVER I moved the dupes to a "Dupes' folder 1", and I kept repeating the dupe search in each "Dupes" folder to were I had Dupes 1, Dupes 2, Dupes 3, etc., until I only had short ID's in every folder. It really did work quite well doing it this way as long as you keep a copy of ALL of rips with their full ID's. Latshaw's Song list generator uses this technique for creating your song books.

Until recently, I only removed dupes from my books leaving everything on the drive. But I also have slowly started doing something similar to mrmarog.

One reason I want to remove dupes from my drive is to reduce backup/restore time. Even with today's fast drives, it takes several hours to backup/restore everything. I am closing in on 70,000 tracks now.

I also want to start optimizing my karaoke disc usage more effectively. With as many duplicate songs as I have, I can probably run more rigs than I think I can without having top purchase more discs. Particularly for discs that have songs that are likely to be requested less frequently.

I have been chatting with a co-worker about an algorithm that will help optimize this and tell me what discs I can pull out for additional rigs.

-Chris

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Also bear in mind that some manufacturers put out more than one version of the same song by the same artist, and they can differ.

A good example of that would be Garth Brook's "Friends in Low Places. I know that Sound Choice has both the regular Jukebox/Radio Version and the Live Version (which has a 3rd stanza and what seems like a never ending chorus).