I want to know if there are any duplicated songs in my stored folder and get to remove the duplicate. I also wish to remove any remix if it’s along with the original. For Spotify playlists, there’s a site available but I want to do the same locally. Is there any music manager available?
MusicBrainz Picard is a software for tagging and organising music. It can apply the tags directly to the file and then move them into a folders like Music\Album\01-Song.mp3
An easy way to spot duplicates at that point is search for any songs that have (1) or (2) and so on in the file name.
Then you can use basically any music player to sort by title to check for duplicates, too.
Thanks, I’ll give it a try.
https://beets.io/ could do all of that for you.
Thanks. I’ll try it out.
If you only want to find duplicates give czkawka a try. It has a nice GUI too.
I don’t know how good it is for music duplicates I only used it to find duplicate pictures and worked very well !
I’ll give it a try. Thanks.
Tell me how it went :) curious if it worked out !
I just wrote a PowerShell script to do this for my pictures comparing file names and sizes. Should be able to find something similar with a search. Might not work for what you’re looking for unless they were exact copies though.
Thanks for the heads up.
MusicBee has Tools -> Manage Duplicates
Thanks. I’ll try this out as well.
Not ideal, but what I do is to load all musics onto VLC, open the list view (Ctrl L on Linux), let the list fully load, sort by song name and check what appears repeated or that I don’t want for other reasons. It also helps if the songs are metadata-rich, such as the ones bought from Bandcamp and ITunes (not Apple Music), so it’s easier to differentiate them (given this community, I have no clue how/where from yours are). And lastly, there’s a little plugin I found a while back that helps a bunch, vlc-delete, which adds the option to delete the currently playing file, and that, at least in the Linux version, benefits from motor memory since it can be executed with a quick succession of 2 Alt shortcuts.
Hmm. I’ll give it a try. Seems a bit complicated at first for me haha.
Sadly I couldn’t think of a better way yet. 😔
Though not due to piracy, I also end up with a lot of repeated, redundant and/or unwanted files, so I’m often having to delete them.
Haha, happens.
