# How I can accept missing tracks

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**Created:** [September 24, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-i-can-accept-missing-tracks/1517 "2020-09-24T15:04:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-i-can-accept-missing-tracks/1517/2 "2020-09-24T23:49:47Z")

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Hi! For that, you’d want to use is the (undocumented) `distance_weights` config options, which you can find described elsewhere on this forum:

> [@Can beets fix tracks which are wrongly named?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/can-beets-fix-tracks-which-are-wrongly-named/671/4):
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> There is! It’s actually undocumented for now, but there is a match.distance\_weights config mapping that lets you specify how important each factor in a match is. The track length is one such factor: Increasing that number in your configuration will increase its relative importance for matching.

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