# Advice / Thoughts / Proposal - Dealing with Duplicate Tracks .02.mp3, .03.mp3 etc **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/advice-thoughts-proposal-dealing-with-duplicate-tracks-02-mp3-03-mp3-etc/444207 **Category:** MusicBrainz Picard **Created:** [September 20, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/advice-thoughts-proposal-dealing-with-duplicate-tracks-02-mp3-03-mp3-etc/444207 "2019-09-20T06:45:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![tdiaz](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/tdiaz/32/14333_2.png) [@tdiaz](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tdiaz) #### Post date: [October 5, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/advice-thoughts-proposal-dealing-with-duplicate-tracks-02-mp3-03-mp3-etc/444207/5 "2019-10-05T03:48:45Z")
Here’s what I came up with as of Picard 2.2. Now to figure out how to include this on the Options window… > [@Plugin Capabilities & a 'fix' (Q&D hack) for dealing with duplicate files in the album directory](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/plugin-capabilities-a-fix-q-d-hack-for-dealing-with-duplicate-files-in-the-album-directory/445066): > > This Modification in it’s current format requires you to build your own application and would have to be applied / merged into each subsequent release as desired or possibly added as a more complete option to the official build. Having found many threads over quite a period of time on dealing with duplicates and managing to get pretty much the ‘perfect’ File Naming Script for my method of sorting / archiving… I decided to take a stab at dealing with duplicates. There’s got to be -some- way. M… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/advice-thoughts-proposal-dealing-with-duplicate-tracks-02-mp3-03-mp3-etc/444207)._