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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?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[–] unlogic 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I'll try it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll give it a try. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Tell me how it went :) curious if it worked out !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the heads up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks. I'll try this out as well. Edit: Thanks bro, this worked in my first try itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello everyone. The fastest and easiest way I found is this one: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/14777027

[–] unlogic 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for posting the update on what you used

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm. I'll give it a try. Seems a bit complicated at first for me haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Haha, happens.