# Not as quiet option?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/not-as-quiet-option/241>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/not-as-quiet-option/241 "2017-12-13T06:39:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jifop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@jifop](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jifop)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/not-as-quiet-option/241/1 "2017-12-13T06:39:02Z")

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Hey, is it possible to do an import but only have beets prompt when an album isn’t a duplicate?

I’ve done an import using -q which went very well importing just over half my music into an organised collection however as most of it was ripped directly from CDs allot were skipped so I need to do anther import but ideally I’d like it to automatically skip items already imported and only prompt for new/unknown albums, is this possible?

Basically “beet import but skip already imported”

Thanks in advance

Tim

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/not-as-quiet-option/241/2 "2017-12-13T15:10:43Z")

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Hi! We don’t have anything exactly like that, but there is a `duplicate_action` config option that can let you automatically skip duplicates:  
[http://docs.beets.io/en/v1.4.5/reference/config.html#duplicate-action](http://docs.beets.io/en/v1.4.5/reference/config.html#duplicate-action)

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**Author:** ![jifop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@jifop](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jifop)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/not-as-quiet-option/241/3 "2017-12-13T21:04:51Z")

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that is exactly what I need, didn’t see that in the manual! Thankyou so much!