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I have so many duplicate songs but they have different names. Is there an application I can used to find and delete the duplicates?

Zanna
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  • The fdupes program lists duplicates by content, but with music, you'll need something that does fingerprinting of the audio – muru Feb 16 '17 at 13:31
  • Could be done with reading the metadata of the files, although that would only work if the files were tagged properly in the first place. A bit of Python with a suitable ID3 library would do the job. – Carl H Feb 16 '17 at 13:35
  • some ideas, search by title/artist in ID3 info, orsearch by file MD5 hash. however, when i wanted to do the same thing i reasoned it was best to keep the dupes because va compilations will be broken, albums of greatest hits vs another album by artist will be broken etc.mp3's are relatively small. – user3791372 Feb 16 '17 at 20:49

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there are discussions on this matter on community.metabrainz.org going on (see https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-can-i-remove-all-of-my-duplicate-music/20495/8 for example).

additionally a wiki page on wiki.musicbrainz.org is showing an example on how you could find some duplicates:

https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:Find_Duplicate_Music_Files

This wiki boils down to get the deprectated libtunepimp (https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:libtunepimp/Download), install it and use the included trm util in the following script:

find / -regex '.*\(ogg\|mp3\|wav\)' -exec trm '{}' ';' -print0 
   | tr '\n\000' ' \n' 
   | sort 
   | uniq -c -W1 
   | grep -v -e '^ *1' 
   | cut -b9-44 
   | xargs -iXX -n1 grep XX /tmp/trms.log 
 > /tmp/trmdupls.log

in /tmp/trmdupls.log should be a list of all those duplicates. You should make sure there are no false positives in there before deleting all those files blindly.

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Phillip -Zyan K Lee- Stockmann
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