Thanks for the responses everyone.
Let me attempt to be a little more clear on my setup and the actual problem that I was having since it appears that most of you never had this problem. I will also explain what was suggested and attempted on my part to avoid it, without success.
@sandsOfArrakis- I was using only 3.5 and have never attempted to install Studio or Origin. Didn’t even know they existed so I am not seeing duplicates in both apps. EDIT: I think I misunderstood what you were trying to tell me. I get it now. Thanks.
My listening setup as follows- 2016 MacBook Pro w/2.7ghz i7/16g through a Hegel HD12 DAC. All of my music files reside on a Qnap TS-873 in my LAN which in turn backs up all files to a remote TS-473. I DO NOT use iTunes or Apple Music on my MBP, iTunes complications were supposedly the source of this problem. This was not the problem in my case because I don’t use iTunes (or Apple Music) and have only an empty “music” folder on my MBP. My music sync folder is pointed directly to the Qnap DAP folder and I have no secondary source in Audirvana. I don’t let Audirvana rescan folders at start up. Syncing only takes place when I hit the sync button.
It was then suggested that the solution to this problem was to avoid having any activity occurring in your synced music folder while using Audirvana. I never had any activity in the music folder while using the app (other than choosing the music) nor does my NAS perform backups or maintenance during use since I schedule those activities for 3AM. Supposedly using the app while synching was a possible issue. Other than allowing the sync operation to complete, I never used Audirvana in any way during a sync. Another possible solution was to delete the playlist before exiting the program… nope, that didn’t work either. I finally purged the the program and all files in its entirety out of MacOS. I rebuilt the library and started from scratch agin while making a copy of the .sqlite file on a thumb drive. While being very careful and following every suggestion that had been offered for people having this problem, no dice. Still had to swap the .sqlite file every couple of weeks when I started noticing duplicates all over again. Oddly enough, the program always worked flawlessly (or at least without frustration) for me in every other way but the non-stop duplicates finally wore me down causing me to abandon it.
I really appreciate the help and responses everyone, I am all ears if you are using a Mac and have a solution or never had this issue. If you are using Windows, thanks for the response but we are now comparing apples to oranges since they are different OS and different apps and think it is an app issue due to the OS.
All I really want to know is if any Mac users have issues with Origin.
