Ever accidentally buy a track twice?
I think I found a flaw in my shopping habits. I tend to shop at 2 online stores…and a couple times now, I’ve bought the same track on different days at both of them. I’m not talking about vinyl doubles, I mean 2 copies of the exact same digital file.
A few dollars here and there isn’t a big deal, and I guess that means I really like the tracks. But…is that weird? Has anyone else done that by accident?
I just bought a track twice on beatport with their recent big savings, one at 25 and another at the 50% sale. Normally beatport warns you when you’re about to buy the same track so I have no clue how I managed to pull that one off.
The way I usually wind up with doubles is if Ive already purchased the track then wind up purchasing an album with the same track on it. I also keep both copies of the file I may name one track differntly than the other.
Never lol. I don’t go nuts on tracks so I always know if I already own it or not
I’ve done it twice. 
I vow to try to never do it again.
Coming from the days of CDs, Best Of’s, Boxed Sets, Greatest Hits, etc…there are some tracks I have over a dozen times!
Digitally, I have a subscription service that sends 80-100 mp3s a month (Prime Cuts). There is some degree of duplication between that and individual purchases I have made (20-ish a year…???). As long as I buy the single BEFORE it’s on the subscription I don’t feel too bad.
A print screen of your purchase & a quick browse before you purchase again would most likely solve this problem.
I have not purchased anything twice before but I have purchased alot of tracks and /facepalmed about it afterwards.
PLENTY of times unfortunately. I get music from cd pools and buy from several different stores. My new procedure is to scan my iTunes library before I hit the purchase button. The most frustrating is when you buy a track on beatport, then you get the same track in a pool the next day.
Another way I buy dupes when I am totally conscious of it is when I grab those compilations from my favorite labels. It’s at that point where I scan every track and see how many I will be duping. Sometimes, I’ll accept 10 duplicates if I’m getting the other 40 tracks for $10.
Yeah…that’s the problem…I tend to buy tracks in batches, and searching my existing collection has apparently been too much of a PITA. So, instead I just facepalmed.
It’s really annoying when they have different cover arts, 'cuz depending on how sorting algorithms work, it might take me a little while to even notice.
Been updating my cover art to be more consistent, too… another big pain. But, it has been part of my workflow lately… sharpens up those motor reflexes from when I used to spot the record in the crate by the sleeve and color of the label.
BTW… just was sent a track from one of my pools that I had sitting in my Beatport crate for a month. Of course I bought it last week because I had the coupon and wanted to play it at a gig. 
Oh well, that is the occurrence that is out of my control!
I’m same way moostapha I buy a lot of albums or compilations so it happens lots I try to check ones I think and have caught it a few times
I’ve lost count of the times I have bought a track only to realise that I was sent it weeks previously or it was waiting on the promo website for me to download but I just hadn’t been bothered to check.
As for buying compilations - crikey I buy them for a bunch of tunes and end up with 7 or 8 versions of something. The worst culprit is deep house that I need for my Friday gig. Sometimes it’s cheaper to just buy an album rather than 4 or 5 tracks off it.
I would love to know what my collection was like without the duplicates. I have a plan for the next SSD I’m gonna install. I’m gonna copy my gigging SSD and then run whatever application does the job best and see just how much crap I can get rid of.
Its just karma for the songs we didnt pay for in the past.
I reckon ive done it 3 times this year lols.
jskizz
Yeah, plenty of times. Both Beatport and Google Music. Probably more then I should have, but I’m not too worried. It’s usually because the song was hella worth it.
Oh man…I remember those days. Napster and my high school’s T1 after hours was awesome. Those afternoons with our little pirate switch plugged into the back of the chem storage room are why I liked Metallica…which is pretty ironic in itself if you think about it.
Napster. You filthy newcomer. 
We were trading mp2s (no joking) on Hotline for years before Napster.
Ya definitely the same track on an artist album and also a compilation. No biggy.
Happened a few times to me. Definitely annoying
Can say I was never big on the sharing sites. Always bought my stuff. P2P in my day was borrowing some records from someone
A majority does seem to come from complilations , but I am fine since they are priced so well you still get a great deal on it.
Also noticed a lot of re-releases. Sometimes, I do not mind that because I can get a cleaner copy of a track I may have digitized off of my vinyl or bought on a lower bit rate (I encoded everything at 320, but would gladly take the lossless if it’s re-released).
Keep us posted on what program you find is best. That is definitely a project I’ve been avoiding :-/