Setting to Ignore/exclude songs less than 2 seconds?

[benmoses 4]

Quick question, is there a way/setting anywhere in emby to ignore songs less than a time or length (like 1, 2, or 5 seconds)?

Thanks!

[Luke 42085]

Hi, there is currently no option to do this. What is the use case?

[benmoses 4]

Case where albums have a bunch of 1 second silent tracks.  For example Dave Matthews - Under the Table and Dreaming, tracks 12 thru 33 are 1 second a silent.  Nine Inch Nails has an album that does this up to track 99 I think.  This used to be novel and cute in the 90's but now it's just annoying. LOL  I know I could simply just delete those silent tracks but my principled side of my head doesn't like that idea because then I'm breaking truth about the real contents of a given album.  Might there be another way to deal with this?

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

Why not simply delete the problem files from the file system? That would seem to fix any problems you might have with them. The "breaking the 'truth " about the album seem to be really a non issue. For music what "truth" could there be in silence?

[ebr 16195]

1 hour ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

For music what "truth" could there be in silence?

According to Paul and Art, quite a bit...

[benmoses 4]

Haha, not trying to start a philosophical debate here, just wondered if there was a feature or setting to do this.  Would be nice because there's probably a few dozen albums in my collection that have files like this and ignoring them would be a lot easier than trying to find and delete them.  No biggie though.

EDIT:

I suppose I could use a search tool to find files smaller than say 512k or so.

Edited November 23, 2021 by benmoses
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[FrostByte 5392]

I've got both of those albums.  The NiN album is Broken.  I ripped and added mine to Emby with all the 1 second songs also.