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    Neil G commented  · 

    OK, well, first, I believe the latest comment was saying the same thing as me. He wrote that he was having trouble with duplicates "across numerous podcasts." Not within podcasts, but across podcasts.

    Furthermore, he read my note and said he needed it as well. So it seems that he was having the same problem as me.

    To respond to your note, first, I don't know if they're using the exact same unique ID for episodes across different threads. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. I could give you some examples if it would help you look into it. Or, if there's a way for me to look into it so see if the IDs are the same, then please tell me how, and I will do so.

    Second, I don't know your technology, so I'm saying say what you can and can't do. But it seems to me that if the IDs aren't exactly the same, but the titles are exactly the same, there should be a way to delete them after they're in the downloaded list if the titles match, since then they're already in the app. But, again, you know better what your technology can and can't do.

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    Neil G commented  · 

    Xavier - not sure if your comment was in response to my original post or the comment posted today, but you seem to be referring to duplicate titles within a podcast. We're talking about duplicate titles across different podcasts.

    The example I gave was NPR. They have several podcasts. So NPR News might have an episode: "Facebook Buys Microsoft." But since it's a tech story, NPR Tech will also have the same "Facebook Buys Microsoft" episode. And NPR Business will have it too.

    So I'll end up with three copies of the EXACT SAME episode with the exact same title, distributed by three different podcasts (but the same podcast owner).

    Do you see the issue here? Matching on the title would prevent the other two copies from being downloaded.

    If the duplicate titles can't be prevented from being downloaded, then perhaps a function which runs automatically once all downloads are complete which automatically deletes any duplicate titles, except for one copy of each. That would be great.

    Thanks so much!

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