merging artists
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:54 pm
Hi,
After many years of procrastination I would like to clean up the "artist/person" entries in my database. When I first started using CATraxx I entered artists as "Young, Neil" or "Rolling Stones, The" when adding albums to make sure that they sorted by last name and ignored articles such as "the". I left artists/persons in other fields such as tracks, performers, composers, etc. alone when the information was in CDDB downloads. As a result I now have hundereds of "duplicate" entries...both "Neil Young" and "Young, Neil".
What is the best way to merge the artists/persons? I've tried to manually change the name of "Young, Neil" entry to "Neil Young" and received a message similar to the attached.
Before moving on to fix the rest of the data, I had two questions:
1. It looks as if I didn't lose any information after the merge despite the warning in the dialog box...is that accurate or is it because I may not have had that information in the "Young, Neil" entry prior to the merge?
2. Is there way to identify such potentially duplicate entries or will have to manually go through the "Artist/Person" lookup table to identify and merge such entries?
Thanks in advance for your help.
After many years of procrastination I would like to clean up the "artist/person" entries in my database. When I first started using CATraxx I entered artists as "Young, Neil" or "Rolling Stones, The" when adding albums to make sure that they sorted by last name and ignored articles such as "the". I left artists/persons in other fields such as tracks, performers, composers, etc. alone when the information was in CDDB downloads. As a result I now have hundereds of "duplicate" entries...both "Neil Young" and "Young, Neil".
What is the best way to merge the artists/persons? I've tried to manually change the name of "Young, Neil" entry to "Neil Young" and received a message similar to the attached.
Before moving on to fix the rest of the data, I had two questions:
1. It looks as if I didn't lose any information after the merge despite the warning in the dialog box...is that accurate or is it because I may not have had that information in the "Young, Neil" entry prior to the merge?
2. Is there way to identify such potentially duplicate entries or will have to manually go through the "Artist/Person" lookup table to identify and merge such entries?
Thanks in advance for your help.