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Need advice on storing songs with the same name - Mktrem123 - 06-30-2026
Hi...
I play trumpet and am storing music on a Samsung tablet. I have successfully imported 200 "Trumpet 2" songs into a collection.
Now I want to load "Trumpet 1" parts for the same songs. I tried using a new collection, however, I am getting warned about duplicate songs.
Should I be using a different methodology? Songs and Collections doesn't seem to be doing it.
Any advice is welcome.
Thanks
RE: Need advice on storing songs with the same name - Skip - 06-30-2026
Personally, I would just add a 1 or 2 to the song title, ie., Song xyz t1, song xyz t2. There are several other ways, but they seem to add steps to filtering. Then you could have 2 collections, trumpet 1 and trumpet 2 and the song should be right next to each other in the main library.
Additionally you could add any other instrument/vocal version using the same system, ie. xyz-v[ocal]-1 or xyz ac[ccordian].
RE: Need advice on storing songs with the same name - IanMSpencer - 07-02-2026
(06-30-2026, 01:35 AM)Mktrem123 Wrote: Hi...
I play trumpet and am storing music on a Samsung tablet. I have successfully imported 200 "Trumpet 2" songs into a collection.
Now I want to load "Trumpet 1" parts for the same songs. I tried using a new collection, however, I am getting warned about duplicate songs.
Should I be using a different methodology? Songs and Collections doesn't seem to be doing it.
Any advice is welcome.
Thanks
MS is quite happy with duplicate song names. I use the custom group as instrument so I can separate the different versions - I have altered the name display to include the custom group so I can tell them apart.
Where MS gets confused is if the underlying PDF name is the same, so having a naming convention for the PDFs is the trick.
RE: Need advice on storing songs with the same name - Mktrem123 - 07-02-2026
@Skip: That worked perfectly!
Thanks for the suggestion!
@Ian: Thanks for the input. I will look into doing that going forward.
RE: Need advice on storing songs with the same name - Chris Bakker - 07-03-2026
Just another trick you can use.
Merge the pdf into 1 and use the same pdf from trumpet 1 and 2 (like a satb would).
Then changes the pages,collection,title for each song for what you want it to be.
RE: Need advice on storing songs with the same name - otnt - 07-03-2026
With Total Commander or similar tool you can batch rename your pdfs.