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)

s4mur41

hooray for the Exorcist

callandor87

Excellent! Some suggestions: show a progress bar while exorcising, and maybe a notification sound when exorcising is complete? Thank you for the addon! :)

thayan

Almost without fail, when I run exorcist to erase ghost tracks, I hit the "exorcise the ghosts" button before I select anything, which causes songbird to crash (I don't use this feature more than once a month). I feel like I can't be the only person making this mistake over and over. Is there any way you can just make an error message pop up instead of letting songbird crash?

juno14

Great job on the app! However, my Media Views selection is greyed out. Do you happen to know why? Thanks!

xand

is it possible to add as a feature the detection by the time the track is added to the library ?

juno14

Problem xolved by rextarting Xongbird. Oopx

locust

Great add-on. I have about 20k songs in my library, so it's definitely a must have for me!

LeMirque

As noone answered, I ask again:

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...

Did no one else here experience this?

rkla

how can I download it? If I select the download putton I am lead to the version history.

dez93

hey guys, love the extension, but like DonLito would like to be able to physically remove files from within songbird rather than using fslint. Possible to add a right-click option or a button to 'physically delete selected' next to the path? Ideally would also work for multiples. Not sure if there's an option to show path in the media view, but if not, this would super useful as well, for speed.
Cheers, keep up the great work.

cbj4074

I have no need or desire to delete the duplicate tracks, or even remove them from my library. I just want them removed from the all media views (except for the Exorcist-specific views, obviously), so I don't have to look at them.

Shouldn't reintroducing the old functionality, in addition to whatever improvements have been made, be fairly trivial?

lolproe

Gah, I have a question that is probably too silly to answer. Is there any way to make this not check the song title? Most of my music collection has created duplicates, except the problem is that the titles of the duplicates are cut off after a certain number of characters. Would there be any easy way to edit this so that it checked the other characteristics (I'd imagine length + artist + album would be enough) but skips over checking that the names are the same?

I don't know anything about add-on development, but this is what I tried. I changed the .xpi to a .zip, unzipped it and then opened the clones.js file in Visual C++. Then I found the part where it looked like it was looking up the information on each file (lines 89-94) and tried removing the line with trackname but keeping the rest. Then I saved it, re-zipped the files, changed them to a .xpi and installed that. It installed and worked fine, but it still said I didn't have any clones.

Essentially what I'm asking is if it's possible to modify the addon the way I want it without any extensive coding knowledge, and if what I did was anywhere close to how one would go about changing it.

Thanks

klint

Testing it with 1.8b3, I discovered a vicious circle.
Go to the Music library, activate the Exorcist view, delete all ghosts. At the end, it won't find any ghost and will switch to the list view. It does that actually, but it is a list view that is none of the libraries on the left (neither Music, nor Video, nor Downloads is highlighted).
And if you go to Music, the Exorcist is still active and will find no ghosts and will move to list view and you will go to Music and The exorcist is still active there and... and... and...
Only way I could find: deactivate the exorcist
Thanks

Anais

Actually me and my friend has discussed this previously and we completely agreed with you.
http://www.nhl87.com

PeterReaper

Please release a version for the just-released Songbird 1.8.

Unfortunately, Songbird sucks without this add-on.

marmonto

Please...is there a new release version near to use it?
I'm missing and needing it a lot....
thanks

urakeit

thanks

songing

not work ??

thehungrything

Please add an update for version 1.8.0!!!! I love the add-on..

honkerdown

Ditto, looking for the 1.8.0 bump!

cbj4074

To all those requesting that the author release a 1.8.0-compatible version, you might consider becoming involved and helping the author. I'm sure he or she could use it, and would probably appreciate it...

Misanthrop

how to get this add?
i'm confused the downloadlink is disabled.

Zifanite

To those wondering why you can't download this and install it. This is because a newer version is not yet out. So pretty much wait for a newer version to appear (as many have already said) or try and build it yourself.

The current version of the exorcist version history:

Version: 0.1.7
Download for All Platforms

    * Uploaded 9 months ago
    * Works with Songbird 1.4.1 - 1.8.0a

Update for Songbird 1.7.0a

-----------------
We're currently version 1.8.0, not 1.8.0a

PeterLairo

The download link for 1.1.7 actually downloads a file called exorcist-0.1.6.xpi :-(

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1782/versions

Zifanite

Yes it does, but the actual file inside that is called 0.1.7 and works for 1.4.1-1.8.0a . that's what is written inside the xpi file itself. i had a look.

MobileJoe

Caleb Phillips you legend

ihavnoclue

I'm having a weird issue with this now where when I switch from viewing a playlist to the main library it automatically runs the Ghost Tracks view. Anyone else having this issue?

ShadowMonster

If you want use it on 1.8.0... so just after download it open in archive manager and edit install.rdf file by just delete 'a' letter from version controller. I'm using now and it's work ok

ShadowMonster

One thing - you must delete tracks manually by right click and leave one file from list not deleted. If you have 2 same songs it will show you both so delete only one by right click. Exorcist button do not work correctly - is deleting songs from database but not from hard disk

songing

not work ?

officelogistics

any update for songbird 1.8?pls

captainjewcurls

I have hundreds of gigs of doubles!

mplex

Doesn't work with 1.8 & the version billed as 1.7 is actually 1.6 - time for an update methinks!

lucasndi

Hey Guys, if some one is really desesperate, can try download this file chanche the extension from .xpi to .zip, open the file and open the file install.rdf modifi the line that containe this :

<em:maxversion>1.8.0a</em:maxversion>

for this

<em:maxversion>1.8.0</em:maxversion>

(yes, a simple 'a') And remplace the older file.

roll back the file extension to .zip and done :D

it work for me ....

lucasndi

sorry... the extension should be .xpi not .zip

neeeeon

super bummed this doesn't work with 1.8.0 :(

Stormdancer

Really really would love to see this updated for 1.9.1

Nucem

Why can no-one download these anymore? It's damn annoying. And I have to agree with Stormdancer. This tool is outstanding and one of the most helpful add-ons I've ever seen (or used).

I have 1TB + of music and I still think that SB is the best way to get around it. But I could really use this ext to get rid of all the crap links in my library.

Looking forward to seeing what ppl come up with.

Wvelkala

Really hoping this becomes re-available to download soon. Just reinstalled Songbird and don't want to import my library until I know I can deal with the mountains of duplicates.

foreignnumber4

You should add and option to automatically exorcise. I have way too many duplicates

AMDphreak

Why hasn't a SB 1.8 compatible version come out yet? Where are you sauerkraut?

jefersonnavarro

I used a workaround.

In the version history page http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1782/versions I downloaded the 0.1.7 version.

The strange thing is that the name of the file is exorcist-0.1.6.xpi.

The .xpi file is a zip archive.

Extract the content and edit the install.rdf file.

There's a line with something like this <em:maxversion>some version here</em:maxversion>.

As I use the version 1.9.3 of Songbird I wrote <em:maxversion>1.9.3</em:maxversion>.

Have fun !

jefersonnavarro

Of course you have to rezip the contents and install your modified version.

bookai

why can't i download this adds? why is there a problem with my version of songbird? what can i do?

Oladne

Bonjour,

J'adore cette extension et la trouve très utile. Il est vraiment dommage qu'elle soit laissée à l'abandon. J'ai bien essayé d'étudier le code pour le mettre à jour mais je ne suis pas programmeur ;-)

Je serais très reconnaissant si le développeur publiait une nouvelle version ou si quelqu'un d'autre ayant les compétences reprennent le projet.

Merci !

Zifanite

Found this in the standard exorcist add-on page:
GeekShadow

Exorcist updated and should work up to Songbird 2.0 :
http://geekshadow.com/fichiers/addons/exorcist-0.2.0.xpi

academy

the images are funny, who designed them? but the other issues are just a bit complicated,
can you do coding for Wordpress?
http://www.guide-augmentation-mammaire.fr/une-operation-en-tunisie

nexus964

nice good plugin

risk

Doesn't work with Songbird 1.9.3 ...
haven't tried any .xpi surgery though.

risk

duplicate finder works on 1.9.3 with hand modified .xpi
ghost finder, not so much.

alexs77

With 0.2.0 from http://geekshadow.com/fichiers/addons/exorcist-0.2.0.xpi, removing clones doesn't seem to work on Songbird 1.10.0b1 build 2031 on OS X.
I've got a playlist with some clones (4 tracks, 2x2 clones), enabled "Duplicate Tracks" and clicked on "Exorcise the Clones!". A warning was shown (that it'll "indiscriminately remove duplicates" etc.pp.), I clicked on "Ok" and nothing happens. There's no output in the Error Console window of Songbird.