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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Perhaps it would be better to treat this situation as its own special case - with its own dialog and resolution approach. Certainly I will hold off doing anything related to it until I get more time to think through some approaches. It may be that we can fit it into the existing search approach or that it requires something different. You would certainly need to have an equivalent of "ignore title, fuzzy author" so that you could catch where two variations of the same author each have a distinct set of books in your library that none of the existing algorithms would catch  |
Yeah, I realized there was one aspect that does indeed make it special - in the case where all the author records are identical (no different fuzzy matches) it's not a dupe (unlike a book), so those authors would need to not be marked. Probably not an insurmountable problem though, not sure if a different GUI would be required. But agree that getting the basic functions/feedback is a better priority right now - probably best just to leave the 'fuzzier' considerations alone for the first cut.