songs are doubling up in database

[starboy5]

Hi there.

I have a ipod video 30gb. When browsing songs in my database, they seem to be doubled up. E.g. when I view a particular artists's album, it has the correct list of songs in there.. and then they are repeated.

I went back to settings, and clicked initialise database (to start from scratch), and it seems to be the same. Is there a setting I've missed that doubles up songs?

[Llorean]

This has so far always meant that you really do have two copies of that song on your player, you just don't see the other copy because it's somewhere like your recycle bin.

Create a playlist with the duplicate songs, save it, and open it in a text editor, as an example, and you'll see immediately whether they really are the same file or not.

[starboy5]

good idea.. and I got to find out how to make playlists  

The files really are the same though.. here is a fragment from that file:

/music/Avril Lavigne/Let Go/Avril Lavigne-Things I'll Never Say.ogg
/music/Avril Lavigne/Let Go/Avril Lavigne-I'm With You.ogg
/music/Avril Lavigne/Let Go/Avril Lavigne-Things I'll Never Say.ogg

[mschneider]

you just don't see the other copy because it's somewhere like your recycle bin.

Player's have recycle bins? I always assumed that it was like deleting something from a flash drive.

[Llorean]

HD based players are usually treated by windows like a USB hard disk. Thus they have recycle bins, in most cases.

[GodEater]

Unless you turn them off of course...

[bascule]

good idea.. and I got to find out how to make playlists 

The files really are the same though.. here is a fragment from that file:

/music/Avril Lavigne/Let Go/Avril Lavigne-Things I'll Never Say.ogg
/music/Avril Lavigne/Let Go/Avril Lavigne-I'm With You.ogg
/music/Avril Lavigne/Let Go/Avril Lavigne-Things I'll Never Say.ogg

So it would seem there is a problem with the database somewhere, as the FAT filesystem does not allow duplicate files.

Try going to /.rockbox/ and deleting all the *.tcd files (database_idx, database_0...database_8 in my case), then re-initialise your database...

[starboy5]

HD based players are usually treated by windows like a USB hard disk. Thus they have recycle bins, in most cases.

Yeah. When I delete files using Ubuntu, it creates a directory called .Trash-1000

Try going to /.rockbox/ and deleting all the *.tcd files (database_idx, database_0...database_8 in my case), then re-initialise your database...

Yip, after doing that, my files now display correctly in the database.

The only thing I can think of that I changed (in terms of the database) when it started doubling up songs was setting both Load to RAM and Auto Update to yes.

[draeath]

On my Sansa e200r, auto-update causes that same issue.

Somewhere (don't remember where) it was stated that it is caused because auto-update doesn't check for deleted files etc because it would take too long.

[starboy5]

thanks for that input. I've disabled the auto-update now.