Duplicate Music Finder

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  1. Steve34

    Steve34 Feather Star

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    Hoping one of you can help me out here I have somewhere around 30gigs of music and I know I have to have to have some duplicates in there. I was hoping one of you knew of a effective, free, piece of software that would find and delete the duplicates.

    Much appreciated.
     
    Steve34, Jul 25, 2011
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  2. skurious

    skurious Sailfin Tang

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    Do you use itunes by chance? If i remember, there is a way for it to seek out and delete duplicates ( most of them anyway)
     
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  3. insanespain

    insanespain Ocellaris Clown

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    OMG, I need one of these in the worst way. Just been too lazy to look.
     
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  4. dowtish

    dowtish Horrid Stonefish

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    This will depend on where you store your music. Is it all in the same place?
     
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  5. Steve34

    Steve34 Feather Star

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    No, these are just years of accumulated music. Regular MP3

    All in the music directory w/subfolders by artist and then by album.
     
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  6. dowtish

    dowtish Horrid Stonefish

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    I don't think there is a program out there that can do that, but I could be wrong. I use itunes and have had duplicates. I had to just wipe the whole library clean, and manually go through the files and delete them....lmk if you find something
     
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  7. WhiskyTango

    WhiskyTango Eyelash Blennie

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    It's real easy, install iTunes and import all your audio files into iTunes.

    Hit the Find Duplicates button. Highlight every other song and delete.

    Make sure you keep the highest bitrate of each track. shouldn't take you too long
     
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  8. Steve34

    Steve34 Feather Star

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    Will I still be able to use my music / export and burn through windows media? I own nothing that used itunes
     
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  9. WhiskyTango

    WhiskyTango Eyelash Blennie

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    Might be time for an iPod.;)


    no, iTunes doesn't play friendly with non apple products
     
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  10. Steve34

    Steve34 Feather Star

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    that's the thing I have no use for an ipod I just enjoy my music while I am working in my office or burn a disk every once in a while for my car.
     
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