diff --git a/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx b/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx
index edc0ab028..ba13e6ff4 100644
--- a/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx
+++ b/src/decoder/plugins/SidplayDecoderPlugin.cxx
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Windows1252ToUTF8(const char *s) noexcept
 	 * Fallback to not transcoding windows-1252 to utf-8, that may result
 	 * in invalid utf-8 unless nonprintable characters are replaced.
 	 */
-	auto t = AllocatedString::Duplicate(s);
+	AllocatedString t(s);
 
 	for (size_t i = 0; t[i] != AllocatedString::SENTINEL; i++)
 		if (!IsPrintableASCII(t[i]))
diff --git a/src/lib/icu/CaseFold.cxx b/src/lib/icu/CaseFold.cxx
index ebb75f324..ec7ca80fb 100644
--- a/src/lib/icu/CaseFold.cxx
+++ b/src/lib/icu/CaseFold.cxx
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ try {
 #ifdef HAVE_ICU
 	const auto u = UCharFromUTF8(src);
 	if (u.IsNull())
-		return AllocatedString::Duplicate(src);
+		return AllocatedString(src);
 
 	AllocatedArray<UChar> folded(u.size() * 2U);
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ try {
 					     U_FOLD_CASE_DEFAULT,
 					     &error_code);
 	if (folded_length == 0 || error_code != U_ZERO_ERROR)
-		return AllocatedString::Duplicate(src);
+		return AllocatedString(src);
 
 	folded.SetSize(folded_length);
 	return UCharToUTF8({folded.begin(), folded.size()});
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ try {
 #error not implemented
 #endif
 } catch (...) {
-	return AllocatedString::Duplicate(src);
+	return AllocatedString(src);
 }
 
 #endif /* HAVE_ICU_CASE_FOLD */
diff --git a/src/lib/icu/Compare.cxx b/src/lib/icu/Compare.cxx
index 6bc82bdd5..dfc5d2210 100644
--- a/src/lib/icu/Compare.cxx
+++ b/src/lib/icu/Compare.cxx
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ IcuCompare::IcuCompare(std::string_view _needle) noexcept
 #else
 
 IcuCompare::IcuCompare(std::string_view _needle) noexcept
-	:needle(AllocatedString::Duplicate(_needle)) {}
+	:needle(_needle) {}
 
 #endif
 
diff --git a/src/lib/icu/Converter.cxx b/src/lib/icu/Converter.cxx
index a231668a8..6123c2490 100644
--- a/src/lib/icu/Converter.cxx
+++ b/src/lib/icu/Converter.cxx
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ DoConvert(iconv_t conv, std::string_view src)
 	if (in_left > 0)
 		throw std::runtime_error("Charset conversion failed");
 
-	return AllocatedString::Duplicate({buffer, sizeof(buffer) - out_left});
+	return AllocatedString({buffer, sizeof(buffer) - out_left});
 }
 
 #endif
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ IcuConverter::FromUTF8(std::string_view s) const
 		throw std::runtime_error(FormatString("Failed to convert from Unicode: %s",
 						      u_errorName(code)).c_str());
 
-	return AllocatedString::Duplicate({buffer, size_t(target - buffer)});
+	return AllocatedString({buffer, size_t(target - buffer)});
 
 #elif defined(HAVE_ICONV)
 	return DoConvert(from_utf8, s);
diff --git a/src/util/AllocatedString.hxx b/src/util/AllocatedString.hxx
index 2a5aaa02d..6d02aa25e 100644
--- a/src/util/AllocatedString.hxx
+++ b/src/util/AllocatedString.hxx
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ public:
 	BasicAllocatedString(std::nullptr_t n) noexcept
 		:value(n) {}
 
+	explicit BasicAllocatedString(string_view src) noexcept
+		:value(Duplicate(src)) {}
+
 	BasicAllocatedString(BasicAllocatedString &&src) noexcept
 		:value(src.Steal()) {}
 
@@ -86,12 +89,6 @@ public:
 		return Donate(p);
 	}
 
-	static BasicAllocatedString Duplicate(string_view src) {
-		auto p = new value_type[src.size() + 1];
-		*std::copy_n(src.data(), src.size(), p) = SENTINEL;
-		return Donate(p);
-	}
-
 	BasicAllocatedString &operator=(BasicAllocatedString &&src) noexcept {
 		std::swap(value, src.value);
 		return *this;
@@ -138,7 +135,14 @@ public:
 	}
 
 	BasicAllocatedString Clone() const {
-		return Duplicate(*this);
+		return BasicAllocatedString(Duplicate(*this));
+	}
+
+private:
+	static pointer Duplicate(string_view src) {
+		auto p = new value_type[src.size() + 1];
+		*std::copy_n(src.data(), src.size(), p) = SENTINEL;
+		return p;
 	}
 };