Organization on Duplicated Songs
How does anyone manage their duplicate song from their the huge library? (Other than doing nothing.)
I have many songs go across different albums. I am not referring to the remix, extended version etc.
Same song was from their original single. Then, they have LP. Then, Greatest Hits - multiple of them throughout the years. Then, movie soundtracks. Some labels or companies decided to create their own special album. I have plenty of these in CDs.
I tried to delete the song that I believe they are the same song, then I will re-create a playlist to capture the original albums along with the original artwork. This save me some disk space and redownload the same song when listening offline. This takes me a lot of time. Also, how do I decide which one to keep as album and which one become playlist? And some songs are only from a single albums which I was about to make a playlist. I am just creating more headache for myself than gaining.
However, playlist are not the same as album when playing in most app include Navidrome itself. I think keeping the same song multiple times in different albums is not efficient in many ways.
I can’t think of what other way to handle this from a user perspective. As for the library management, if it treat albums as a playlist in the first place and store all songs individually, then album is just a non-mutable playlist. Wouldn’t make it a lot easier to manage from the resource perspective. When I import a new album, it will auto match existing library for matching songs and skip them if found. Only download/copy the new song/version, then create an album/playlist and done.
I am just thinking out loud. Want to see how people have huge library management their songs.