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

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.

https://beets.io/ could do all of that for you.

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 !

MusicBee has Tools -> Manage Duplicates

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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.

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.