
How to Get Dupes
Once you have established your settings in the Playlist Popup and Criteria Matrix, Dupin is ready to search for duplicates.
Click on the "Get Duplicates" command in Dupin's File menu.
You could also use the Command-G keyboard shortcut or click on the "Get Dupes" toolbar icon. In a few moments, the selected Master Library Playlist or Playlist will be searched for duplicates based on the parameters you set in the Criteria Matrix.
Tracks will initially be sorted in Dupin's main window by "Dupe Group" in the order that they were discovered. A "Dupe Group" is a set of two or more tracks that meet your Criteria parameters.
Selecting the "Keeper" in a Dupe Group
The Keeper is the single track in a Dupe Group that you have designated as the "original"or what have you. It is the track that you consider the other tracks to be duplicates of.
- Initially, all tracks are designated as Keepers.
- Click on a track's checkbox to toggle its checkmark. By default, a Keeper is a checkmarked track. (If you prefer the opposite configuration whereby Keepers be un-checkmarked, you can toggle the Keeper designation in Preferences. In any case, the text color of non-Keepers is always lighter than the text color of the Keepers. Throughout this help document, however, a checkmarked track is considered a Keeper.)
- Because a very large collection of tracks in Dupin can be slow to acknowledge a manual click to a track's checkbox when not sorted by "Dupe Group", you may find it more convenient to use the Selection Window to work on smaller batches of tracks at a time.
- Or, use the Filter Controls to automatically designate a particular kind of track as the Keeper in every Dupe Group.
See also:
Using the Playlist Popup
Using the Criteria Matrix
Using the Filter Controls
Columns and View Options
Basic Operations
Other Tasks and Commands