Find Duplicates - Prefer tags from lower bitrate version (automatically)

Lexicon Questions & Help
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I have a collection roughly 2,500 tracks that iTunes raped, meaning it killed the high-bitrate AIFF files during some cloud backup and now when I re-download I only get Apple’s 320kbit AAC files.

So I re-downloaded everything from Beatport, but those files don’t have my tags and ratings.

I tried using the “Find Duplicates” feature and I think I kinda got it working by selecting the higher bitrate audio file, and then right-clicking on the lower bitrate variant and selecting “Use these tags & cues”.

However, a few problems I see:

  1. I actually want to keep the cues from the higher bitrate file and ONLY want the tags of the lower bitrate one. This doesn’t seem possible currently.
  2. Manually right-clicking every one of my 2,500 files and then 2,500x selecting “Use these tags & cues” sounds very painful and there seems to be no option to configure a default behavior (i.e. always prefer tags from lower bitrate file)

Please help, just subscribed to Pro

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Yeah I’m afraid cherry picking the tags/cues is not possible, it’s all or nothing there currently.

For bulk changing, you can use the Prefer button with Highest Bitrate and enable Use highest tags & cues. If tracks are an audio match, then it will select the highest bitrate to keep but also choose the other result to copy tags from if it has more cues.