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Duplicate Entries in Database

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CoBrA2168:
You guys WOULD NOT BELIEVE what this issue was.  I feel like an idiot it was this simple!

I noticed when looking at the properties of the duplicated songs, that the path always began with the artist "Blue Öyster Cult" (which I'm sure a lot of you know of, MOREE COWBELL).

Then I just assumed it was the "Ö" symbol in the folder name that was causing the issue.  My assumption was correct.  Switching it to just an "O" completely fixed the database issue.  Re-initializing takes about 10 seconds now, instead of 20-30 minutes.  The database is perfect!

Thanks for the suggestions guys, and if anyone else runs into this problem, check your folders for weird characters!

AlexP:
Hmmm, interesting, and thanks for letting us know.  The database should really deal with accented characters (even metal umlauts!), but it seems this is a work around for now :)

torne:
Interesting; I have a large number of directory/file names on my player which contain accented characters or entirely foreign character sets and the database works fine for me (I even have Blue Öyster Cult :) )

Chronon:
I also have a few with accented characters and no duplicates.

CoBrA2168:
Very weird indeed.  I'll have to mess around with this more.  Maybe it's something to do with my memory stick?

I'll try switching it back and re-initializing.  In the Blue Oyster Cult folder it was creating a bunch of dummy files and folders that I was unable to manually delete.  I was forced to reformat the stick.

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