[Mktrem123]

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

[Skip]

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].

[IanMSpencer]

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.

[Mktrem123]

@Skip: That worked perfectly!
Thanks for the suggestion!

@Ian: Thanks for the input.  I will look into doing that going forward.

[Chris Bakker]

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.

[otnt]

With Total Commander or similar tool you can batch rename your pdfs.