BR-Charles

Yes!!! One of the best songbird add-ons.

markswoods

Does the job, though it can take a long time. I had about 5,000 Ghost tracks and it took several hours to exorcise them, but Exorcist did get the job done.

Stormdancer

An outstanding plug-in, definitely in the must-have list for anyone who's got a large library.
It is a bit slow, but absolutely worth it, especially with improved decision-making built in.

franjorge

It breaks the "Filter Pane View" for me on SongBird 1.4.3, Build 1438 (20091223030259).

After installing this add-on, the "List View" of the Library shows all my music, but the "Filter Pane View" shows nothing.

DonLito

Hey guys,

This is an excellent addon, but, unfortunately, I found a bug: If you switch to duplicated tracks and you click on Exorcise Clones the duplicates are deleted from the library, but NOT from the harddisk. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, Songbird 1.4.3, the latest version of this addon and the files are on an external ext4 USB drive. Maybe this has something to do with newer versions of Songbird asking you wether you want to delete the files also from your harddrive or not, as this addon was made before that message was implemented (as far as I know). Could you fix this please?

PS: any idea how to delete the 1200 duplicates on my hdd that aren't in my library anymore?

thx

btw, I filed a bug report:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19587

DonLito

I have managed mode turned on, so Songbird should delete the files automatically if the song is deleted from the library. The problem I have is, that the button to exorcise the clones shows me a message that all the files are being deleted from the library and the harddisk, but actually it only deletes the songs froms the library, leaving thousands of useless mp3s somewhere in my managed mode folder. If I select the clones manually one by one and delete them from the duplicates filter view they do get deleted from my harddrive properly. So the error is somewhere in the javascript behind the "exorcise clones" button.

DonLito

the folder rights are ok, but it still doesn't delete them. I've tried it on two machines with Ubuntu 9.10.

LGof03

the ghost track delete worked fine...but i for some reason have a ton of duplicate racks (800 of 900 songs in my win xp library) and its not detecting them...it detected like a few dozen at first but all the rest seem to be alluding it. tried restarting songbird with no luck...anyone able to fix a simular problem?

sebastiano65

Hi. Thank you for the extension. Some hint: 1) it would be nice if the tracks were moved to folders like "ghosts_track" and "clones_tracks", so, if something is gone wrong, anyone could decide what to do; 2) I don't know what are the criteria used to select duplicates, but I think would be right to consider the quality too, id est the sampling frequency, bit depth, bit rate, beyond the Author, name etc., this way anyone would choose which tracks to keep (maybe some slight interface add on could help the user). Thanks a lot.

sunsong

@LGof03 I've got the same problem. It seems it can't detect duplicates if there's special characters in the titles (or maybe in the metadata). For example a track with the title "Là pour ça" is an undetected duplicate. Is that what you're seeing?

tiangolo

Great!, just great.

obstriegel

@LGof03 I have also the same issue here. It finds ghosts but not all duplicates!
@sunsong: For me it happens also with duplicates which do not have special characters in their metadata. It finds a few but hundreds are left on the disk. This duplicates are files Songbird imported two times into the same folder, so the files match in size, just the name contains a "-1", "-2" , etc..

obstriegel

Sorry, I was wrong and guess the extension is just working correctly.
I discovered some of the duplicates having a different track-number in the metadata, which causes the extension to not identify those tracks as duplicates. A little interface for selecting the criteria as sebastiano65 suggested would be great!

LeMirque

Can anyone confirm that The Exorcist is responsible for that bug:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/i_cant_find_my_playlist

I just had to set up a fresh profile because everything was messed up after running the exorcist. Not only playlists disappeared, there were also empty entries in the library. That error had occured several times before, only way to fix it is a fresh profile.

it really seems that it's an issue with The Exorcist add-on...

kurtgozlu

Kimi albümlerinizin kimi şarkıları eksik mi? Bazı şarkılardan sabit diskinizde birden fazla sayıda mı mevcut? The Exorcist ile şarkılarınızın içinden şeytanı çıkartın! (alıntıdır)