How to remove duplicate tracks from Rhythmbox?

Question

I have Rhythmbox 2.97 on 32bit Ubuntu 12.10.

I have a large number of duplicate music entries that don't show up in my music folder.

I really would like to know if there's any plugin or any means to get rid of them.

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 07 '13 at 05:36

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It's happened to me a few times...

The easy way to solve this issue is:

Open "Home"
Press Ctrl+h (this will show your hidden files and folders)
Navigate to .local/share/rhythmbox
Delete rhythmdb.xml
Restart Rhythmbox

The rhythmdb.xml file contains the music library info for Rhythmbox, by deleting it, you'll be forcing rhythmbox to re-check the library, thus getting rid of the repeated entries.

edited Apr 07 '13 at 05:36

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answered Apr 07 '13 at 04:55

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FYI: This will also reset play-counts and any star ratings you've given your songs – aidan Mar 12 '15 at 01:02
Did you mean simply rm ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml? Why do you complicate things? – Andrew DeFaria Nov 10 '21 at 22:23

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 30 '13 at 07:20

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Some blogger wrote a GUI tool which automatically removes the duplicate entries from the rhythmbox database (without touching the actual files):

sudo apt-get install python-tk
wget -P /tmp blog.tappir.com/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
chmod +x /tmp/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
python /tmp/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py

Reference: http://blog.tappir.com/?p=13

answered Dec 30 '13 at 07:20

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If `blog.tappir.com/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py` doesn't download (it's down at time of commenting), the file is also available at `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrissunny94/raspberry_pi/master/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py` – Martin Thornton Apr 02 '17 at 21:36
Does anyone still have the above mentioned python script? That blog is down now – Peace Blaster Apr 02 '17 at 20:28
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Not available anymore (I get a 404 response). – Jan-Philip Gehrcke Jul 08 '17 at 14:13

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