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Thanks @jonas !

@Hoshiet
Change some columns, then go to Music / Quit, re-open Strawberry, are they then saved?
if not, please do a backtrace so we can see if it crashes:
https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Backtrace
Or use coredumpctl list and check if it crashed previously.

@mncroc LMS (Logitech Media Server / Squeezebox server / Lyrion....) keeps it nice & concise (albeit you have to access the information via the 'Settings' webpage):

Library Statistics
Total Tracks: 26,106
Total Albums: 2,399
Total Artists: 5,197
Total Genres: 93
Total Playlists: 0
Total Playing Time: 1987:20:05

It does also have a rather splendid plugin 'Visual Statistics' that tells you pretty much anything you might care to know about your collection.

But, hey, this is all about SMP - and I love it!

@econnolly That helped. I was fighting with all the "!=" and the suggestions in the pop-up tip, but actually they don't always work. e.g. "year:!=2" didnt work to filter out year 2xxx where "year:-2" does. I hadn't even thought to use the "-" minus sign, but it turns out to be far superior. Also the $ does nothing as far as I can tell there are no wild cards.

"genre:rock -hard -indie -pop -art comment:-amazon year:-20"

basically gives me all the "rock" genre with any "hard rock", "indie rock", "pop rock", and "art rock" filtered out, while also filtering out anything with "amazon" in the comment and sticking to 19xx for the year.

@mncroc
Do you know when / how the duplicates occurred?

If you used the organize feature prior to 1.0.23, it might be caused by a bug that is fixed in 1.0.23, but the duplicated are not removed automatically.
To manually remove duplicates, see.:
https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Find_and_delete_duplicates_from_the_collection_database
I suggest to make a backup of the database file (~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/strawberry.db) before attempting to modify it.