Duplicate Songs
Jocelyn Kahler
Quodlibet (music player/library manager) has a duplicate plugin to find duplicates tracks sharing the same tags (artist, title, length, anything..). So, if your library is properly tagged, your duplicate files should have the same tags. And being a music player, you could more easily listen/delete/rename tracks. You can also set any pattern of tag you want, if for example, the artist tag is missing ..
When I installed iTunes 11, for some reason it re-downloaded all my purchased "in the cloud" songs even though they were already in my library. So now I have duplicate songs, one that matches the cloud, one that has my rating, playcounts, etc. For example:
I want to tell iTunes that they're the same songs- I tried to delete my old copy then, when it asks me to locate it, point to the new copy, but when I delete the cloud entry it doesn't realize that they're the same. Is there anything that I can do to fix this?
I had the same issue this week, and the suggestion here turned out to fix the problem--I simply logged out of the iTunes store and logged back in. For whatever reason, that fixed the problem and made the duplicates disappear.
I linked the thread as it also links to a more general discussion about the sensibility to delete alleged duplicates.
AFAI can tell, a removal based only on the data in TITLE is probably never enough - you need something like an acoustic fingerprint.
I wish to keep track of what songs I have downloaded (eg mp3tag3) and what new music I should grab from my playlists. Maybe this is beyond the forums yet I hope the context leads to a more fruitful discussion.
In iTunes, File>Library>Show Duplicate Items will get you to the first level. At the top of the list that show up, it will be highlighted on All. This shows all songs (exactly the same title) by (exactly) the same artist that exist in your library, but this isn't as helpful since often an artist will release the same title on a different album, or remaster. So if you select beside that the filter for Same Album, It will add that layer and essentially show only true duplicates.
Different from what?
If you have not yet applied a consistent naming scheme, this may be a first step.
If you need the original name (for whatever purposes) then copy that to a user-defined field.
Once done, rename all the files with Converter>Tag-Filename and something like
Format string: %artist% - %title%_
If you already get warnings that a file could not be renamed then this indicates a duplicate.
You can then filter for all the files that do not have an underscore as they could not be renamed.
It'd be nice if I can easily compare two csv (ie. playlists or track lists) to see what is missing (and duplicates) and grab such tracks. Tempted to write the program/script myself, but that's for another day!
Still having the issue on Sonos today, put together my Christmas playlist and several albums by the same artist have the same songs included. Spent longer cleaning the duplicates than it took to make the list.
Uploading seemed to cause a lot of duplicates, so then creating playlists from the recently imported or added files caused a lot of duplicates in the playlists. I listen to playlists on shuffle so this annoyed me because it means the probability of duplicated tracks is higher and you miss out on the other files. I found a way around it though!
There's an open source acoustic fingerprinting system called Echoprint, you might want to check I want to deduplicate a big collection. I haven't used it before (just stumbled across it), but it sounds awesome to be able to do this locally.
I'd recommend using beets with its duplicates plugin; beets is similar to picard in terms of functionality (it can lookup ID3 info from the musicbrainz database and organize your files based on that info), but goes beyond picard's abilities with some of its plugins.
Song DuplicatesIsolate a specific duplicate to work within Rocket Player then try the following:
1. Select the original
2. Long press
3. Select Tag edit
4. Take a screenshot of the tag edit screen using your device
5. Perform the same operation with the duplicate song (steps 1-4)
Review the screenshots and the file paths that are listed at the top of the Tag editing screen. Do you see the differences in the file paths? If so, delete the duplicate or directory that is causing the duplication using a file manager like ES File Explorer.
When syncing with iSyncr; duplicated playlists are created - but they shouldn't be seen. With iSyncr and Rocket Player's advanced playlist configuration, playlist files are synced twice, once as a traditional .m3u file and again as a JRT-Studio .plb file. Why does iSyncr do this?When we created iSyncr, we discovered that the standard Android Media Database doesn't always do a good job displaying .m3u files and needs to be reset. To workaround the Android media scanner, Justin created .plb files. We also designed Rocket Player explicitly to read these playlist .plb files and display them if the .m3u file isn't visible. If you find yourself with duplicate playlists it could be that the .m3u file has been deleted, but the .plb file is not.
To resolve this behavior go to Rocket Player's: Settings - My Library - Hide Playlists with missing .m3u files
Other times we can see duplicate playlists in the same way songs are duplicated; by changing the sync location. To help determine if this is the case, we've created playlist locations at the top of each playlist with Rocket Player's media scanner. Using your playlist location, we can determine if the playlists are synced to two different locations.
I have been recently trying to clean up my Music database and delete old songs or archive them. Sometimes when I go to Show file in Finder, I notice several versions of the song, some with numbers appended to them. Playing with these has messed up my database at times (Thank you Doug Adams for your AppleScripts and Apps), but there needs to be an easier way to open up more disk space and clean this up.
This program is only a trial of the professional edition. However, even though it isn't the full software, it still functions as an easy way to find and remove duplicate files so long as the group is limited to 100 files or less.
Before you learn the manual way to find duplicate songs on Mac, we want to introduce a free application called Duplicate File Finder. It will help you quickly find and remove duplicate music files on Mac, iTunes or any external storage.
Every music lover might have duplicate songs in iTunes. The reasons for creating duplicates might be different. For example, you imported your favorite tracks from CD to iTunes or Music by mistake more than once, you downloaded different versions of a track (the album version and the live performance version), you saved the same song in different albums on your Mac, you accidentally clicked to make a copy of the audio file.
In Catalina and later versions of macOS, the iTunes app has been replaced by the Music app. Actually, the differences between the two applications are minimal, and the steps on how to find duplicate songs in both versions are the same. However, before we explain how to do this, note that you cannot mass select and remove duplicate songs in iTunes. You can delete duplicates only one by one. For mass deleting duplicate music from your Mac, you can use a free application Duplicate File Finder from Nektony. Download the application from the App Store.
How to check the Music library on Mac for exact duplicate media files without third-party applications? In fact, iTunes and the Music app provide such an option. You will need just to repeat the steps above with anadditional one.
Also, you can right-click on the track and select Delete from Library in the context menu.
If you need to mass delete duplicate songs, just first select all of the files you want to delete. For this, press and hold the Command key while selecting files. Then press Delete.
Deleting duplicates from iTunes might be time consuming. Unfortunately, iTunes does not provide any option to automatically delete duplicate songs. You will periodically need to check your Music Library for duplicates and manually remove unneeded tracks copies. Also, if you have duplicate songs stored in different folders on your disk, the mentioned method will not help you to find them and free up space on your Mac. In this case, the best way to check your Mac for duplicate songs is to use Duplicate File Finder. Keep reading and learn how to find exact duplicates and similar audio files on Mac in just a few clicks.
The easiest and quickest way to find duplicate music on Mac is to use a special application called Duplicate File Finder. Duplicate Files Finder scans any storage and disk and detects all types of duplicate files, including duplicate music.
When songs slightly differ from one another, Duplicate File Finder will display those tracks in the Similar Media section. The same song but from different albums or which have different record times will be shown as similar.
Thus, with Duplicate File Finder, you will not remove all of the copies of your favorite track and can be sure that you remove the exact duplicates. Using the Duplicate File Finder app is very easy and even new Mac switchers can handle this task.
I'm trying to clean up an mp3 folder which has a plethora of duplicate files in it due to accidentally dragging my music folder into iTunes and having it re-import songs which were already in the play list.
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