Music duplicate utility?

badbob · 22 Nov 2007 at 18:06

Is there anything which'll scan my music folder, and display duplicate audio tracks (ideally ignoring caps and slight differences in name) ie

Queen
queen
Fat Bottom Girls
Fat Bottom Girl
fat bottom Girls

Then display bitrate/type, so then can delete the lower bitrate (lossy) version keeping the flac (or higher bitrate version)

Got a load of compilation CD's with tracks that exist on albums released by artists so rather save gigabytes.

MarcLister · 22 Nov 2007 at 21:19

It's not exactly designed for this but something like Winamp?

Add the folder(s) you want checked to the media library. Then the songs will be displayed in the media library according to ID3 tags. Anything that is similar will show up next to each other and you can then right-click on certain tracks and delete them from the computer.

Winamp will also show the file format and bit rate for each file as well.

Hope this helps if you can't find a proper tool for this.

badbob · 22 Nov 2007 at 22:12

With 20,000 tracks I really need a filter system, rather than having a list 20,000 long.

MarcLister · 22 Nov 2007 at 22:58

Ah OK. Wasn't sure what scale we were talking about.

I just googled and found http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...en&hs=VE0&q=duplicate+finder++mp3&btnG=Search.

Perhaps try some of them or search the forum for any past threads?

badbob · 25 Nov 2007 at 16:13

Cheers used one to remove mp3 dupes, saved about 2.5GB! Removed lower bitrates ones too. However it doesn't search for flacs, so those mp3's that I didn't remove will still be duplicated with flac files.

whitecrook · 25 Nov 2007 at 16:46

yeah

It's called EncSpot and very handy it is too, when you have 5 copies of an album, and want to keep the best one, for example/