Add Duplicate to Advanced Filters so Multiple same track results can be Filtered

Feature Suggestions
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See → Build a Smart Playlist based off Track Rating with secondary filter to remove Duplicates? for context.

Currently there is no way to apply a secondary filter to remove duplicate tracks from the same artist.

Scenario:

  1. Rate one single track you know is in multiple albums on your plex server, just rate one. In this example, Piano Man from Billy Joel which is in 4 different albums.
  2. Now create a advanced filter to find all tracks with that rating.

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Result:
What happens is that four tracks are returned from the advanced search/filter as that song appears in 4 albums.

Desired Result:
A way to add a secondary filter to just return one of these tracks and remove the duplicates.

BTW… I’m unable to vote on my suggestion due to the 5 vote rule !

2

I suppose this is currently mainly a music topic… or are you also considering deduplicating manually other media types (e.g. manually split movies/shows or different movie editions)?

3

Music, at least that’s my use case. Really scoped to tracks would be best IMO.

Pretty sure tv and movies have duplicate filters already.

4

You can filter for duplicate items (e.g. movies with different quality versions). There’s no option to de-duplicate results as in “collapsing” them to 1 entry if they have the same GUID.

5

Sure. Let’s keep it simple as that’s always best for feature requests.

Keep it scoped to duplicate tracks.