Hello all,

I would venture that the remove dead entries feature is prolly one of the least used in FB2K, but if you have really large playlists, on the order of XX,XXX files, it takes a looong time...

My sugestion is this. If only one track is highlighted (selected), then the Remove Dead Entries would work as usual, going thru the whole playlist to find and remove dead entries. If however, two or more tracks are highlighted, the remove dead entries would scan only those tracks that are highlighted and remove the dead entries. This would speed things up considerably.


Also I think the same feature would be nice for the Remove Duplicates feature.

Just my two cents...

Thanks & regards,

K.Wise

I would really like this.

I'd also like to see "remove duplicates" working a little better. possibly based on md5 sums, or something similar. I'm not sure how it works right now, but I've got a bunch of duplicates, and remove dupes doesn't remove them.

I think a Remove Duplicates with user-definable qualifiers would be great. eg... you could specify if you wanted to remove all songs with the same artist and title.

stripe/ben

It's usually instaneous for me and about 1,500 files.

If a file is on the playlist two (or more) times it removes the other instance of it.

That's what I was afraid of.

I think maybe it should use an md5 of the file, sine they're lightening quick to generate, and will prevent you having the same song on, w/ a different file name.

-Scott

MD5 is something, but not exactly fast. Not when you're pulling in many GB of content off a hard disk.

If you know which songs are dead entries, why not just highlight them and press delete? Why else would you highlight a random chunk to remove dead entries?

MD5 is no where near lightning quick. A CRC32 is faster then an MD5, but still no where near lightning quick and the CRC32 has a much higher probability of being the same between two different files. One of the main issues with both of those techniques is that you have to read the entire file off of the disk to make it, and hard disks are slow.

Anyway, why do you have multiple copies of the same mp3 on your harddrive. Foobar shouldn't be the tool that figures out if you downloaded something twice. Do a find files on your mp3 folder searching for *, and then sort by file size. That is a quick way I've found to find duplicate files. Or you can use a file catalogging tool to do it.

*I* don't have the same file download twice. I'm not the retarded. ;-)

The media server here at work, however, does have the same file more than once, because different employees have the file downloaded, and when I queue up all of the music, I get duplicates.

And now that I think about it more, it would be useless do it with either md5 or crc32, because they'd still have to have the exact same tag information.

Bugger.

-Scott

Well you have a point there, but when dealing with large, really large playlists, with many, many thousands of files spread out over many drives, sometimes you end up with the same tracks in different directories, on different drives, it would be a lot easier to do this culling of duplicate files if FB2K would have this feature.

I tag all my files and use the sort by display name to keep my list properly ordered. I suppose I could sort by file pathname and thus cull the right set of identiically named files.

BTW, why doesn't FB2K have a delete file/files physically from the hard drive feature.

Regards,

K Wise.

There is a plugin called foo_delete or something like that which lets you do that IIRC no clue if there is a 0.7b version of it.