Merging and Deduplication
DISCO creates MP3s automatically when you upload high resolution files like WAVs.
The two file formats (MP3 and WAV) are automatically paired together and travel everywhere for easy access.
When you upload an MP3 (with metadata) as well as a WAV of the same audio, two different tracks will appear in DISCO that you will want to merge together.
These duplicates can be merged manually after the upload.
DISCO Support & Onboarding Resources
DISCO Support and Onboarding teams may be able to assist with organization and merging, depending on your DISCO plan level. These are some of the common methods and tools they use to facilitate cleanups.
Pairing Duplicate Audio Using Folder Path and File Name
WAVs or AIFFs and their corresponding MP3s can be paired automatically if they have identical file names (excluding the extension, such as “.wav,” “.mp3,” etc.) and are grouped together in the same folder prior to bulk upload.
Deduplicating Using Metadata
Sometimes multiple files with identical audio end up in your DISCO.
Metadata can be used to identify and then merge these files.
- Any files where the Title, Artist, and Album fields match exactly will be merged.
- The file with the most complete metadata record across all fields will be retained as the master version.
- Note that the merge tool will skip over files with any metadata variation, even an extra space in the Artist or Album fields.
- If there are variations in the Title, the merge tool will provide a warning that can be checked manually.
- If any of the Title, Artist, or Album fields are blank, they will be ignored and the corresponding track will not get merged.
We can provide a metadata CSV, which you can use to bulk edit these fields. Write to our Support Team via the in-app chat to request your metadata CSV.
Once you’ve finished editing the CSV, we reimport it so that accordant metadata gets updated in DISCO. After that, we can merge files together based on exact metadata matches.
Deduplicating With Audio Fingerprinting
Using this method, our audio fingerprinting system “listens” to/analyzes audio and groups together files with identical waveforms.
This system is extremely sensitive, so sometimes a difference in audio quality (WAV vs MP3, for example) or track length (1 second extra) can cause tracks to be ignored.
Rebuilding Folder Paths in Channels
The DISCO uploader creates a CSV (accessible to DISCO support) that shows playlist names and their corresponding folders paths from hard drives. We can use the information in these folder paths to recreate a hard drive folder structure in DISCO via Channels, folders, and sub-folders.
Onboarding services are offered at the Pro plan level and above.