toddmont Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 I have a Samsung Note 9 and power amp full (paid) version. Recently I moved all my music files from the onboard memory to the SD card. Now when I open an album (under artists) I see multiple appearances of the same song. I set the folder under library to the music folder on the SD card only (unchecked the on board music directory which was empty anyway). A rescan made no difference. Now the app is unusable becouse it plays the sames song twice when I select an album. How an I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 You'll probably need to do a FULL Rescan (in Settings > Library) in order to remove the legacy scanned items. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmont Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 Where is that knob? I see rescan but that did not make any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaubär Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 47 minutes ago, toddmont said: Where is that knob? I see rescan but that did not make any difference. Settings > Library then scroll to the bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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toddmont Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 Thanks for the pointer. I just did a full scan and still have the duplic ates.. see image. Not sure what I am doing wrong here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaubär Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 11 hours ago, toddmont said: I just did a full scan and still have the duplic ates.. see image. Not sure what I am doing wrong here When you show the info for both entries of a song, are they absolutely equal and point to the same file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaubär Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 11 hours ago, toddmont said: I just did a full scan and still have the duplic ates.. see image. Not sure what I am doing wrong here Did you set the music folders in Settings > Library > Music Folders ? If not, choose the directories where the music now resides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmont Posted May 25, 2019 Author Share Posted May 25, 2019 There is a directory difference here.. the one with the artwork is: /storage/6533-35641/music/flat as a pancake/never been any reason.mp3 The Object without the artwork is: /storage/6533-35641/music/flat as a pancake(0)/never been any reason.mp3 Yes, I only selected the music folder on the SD card and not the main memory of the phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaubär Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 1 hour ago, toddmont said: /storage/6533-35641/music And that directory does contain a subdirectory 1 hour ago, toddmont said: flat as a pancake Does it also contain a subdirectory 1 hour ago, toddmont said: flat as a pancake(0) Perhaps both directories are there ? Or there is a link ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaubär Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 14 hours ago, toddmont said: the one with the artwork is: /storage/6533-35641/music/flat as a pancake/never been any reason.mp3 The Object without the artwork is: /storage/6533-35641/music/flat as a pancake(0)/never been any reason.mp3 Did you perhaps do the move to SD card and then erroneously did another copy command ? So that now each subdirectory is duplicated, the duplicate with an additional "(0)" in its name ? Or first a copy, then a move to get rid of the data in the internal memory ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmont Posted May 26, 2019 Author Share Posted May 26, 2019 Not too sure what you are telling me. Initially, I copied all the music form the phone to SD card using my Windows 10 box using file explorer. I just now went though the directories looking do duplicates and did not see and. There was one directory with backup that had some files, however these were not in the /music/* dir. I moved them to /music and did anohter rescan with the same duplicate results. I should add that the Power Amp settings are to only scan that one /music/* directory on the SD card. Are you asking of there is a /*(1) directory? I searched and did not find one. Thanks for the support you are offering. Any other ideas???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaubär Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 4 hours ago, toddmont said: Are you asking of there is a /*(1) directory? I searched and did not find one. Sorry, I meant "(0)", as in the filename of your duplicate songs 14 hours ago, toddmont said: /storage/6533-35641/music/flat as a pancake(0)/never been any reason.mp3 If there are no duplicate subdirectories in your music folder : you could get yourself another SD-card, or re-format the existing one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmont Posted May 26, 2019 Author Share Posted May 26, 2019 I checked the music folder to see if there was another directory in there also called music.. there was not. i backed up the SD card, reformatted it using the Andriod app on the phone, and copied the music (and other files) back onto the SD card. I did a full rescan and still have the duplicates. So, I removed the SD card, powered back up and noted that Power Amp saw zero entries.. that was good.. I put the SD card back in and did another scan in power amp. It came back with the duplicate files again. OK then there was the big revelation...! I changed the Views on file explorer to get the full names and saw that some of the folders had a duplicate "(0)" appended to them is a separate folder. I deleted all of those and did a rescan.. it worked! So, to recap.. for some reason I ended up with song folders that around 20% had a duplicate with (0) at the end and power amp (correctly) picked those up as unique. Thank you blaubar for all of your help and patience. I am working now. Regards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotleyG Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 On 5/25/2019 at 10:25 AM, toddmont said: /storage/6533-35641/music/flat as a pancake/never been any reason.mp3 The Object without the artwork is: /storage/6533-35641/music/flat as a pancake(0)/never been any reason.mp3 Good to hear that you are good to go now @toddmont. But strange you found one of the two folders to be empty. The examples you sent earlier clearly have files in distinct folders that I would have expected Poweramp to identify separately. I often find that when I plan to make any changes to my library, it is best to just add the new files. But if I make a lot of changes I start with a clean slate reformatting the card and copying all files afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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