DE-DUPING? Best practice?

[Deleted_Editor_1603028]

Does MusicBrainz De-Dupe files automatically? If not, is it best to De-Dupe BEFORE or AFTER using this program?

[outsidecontext]

See here for some ideas

How can I remove all of my duplicate music

Picard isn’t really the ideal tool for deleting duplicates, but you can use a pretty basic workaround. Tag all of your music with Picard, and Picard will name duplicates of a song with a number on the end, eg: 01 Coffins.flac 01 Coffins (1).flac Then you can search your whole music folder for ‘(1)’ (and (2) etc if necessary), and delete them all at once. It’s up to you to check that these are really the files you want to delete! If you wanted something more specific or anything else, let us…

[Deleted_Editor_1603028]

Thanks;) Great idea.

[ijabz]

I would advise that is a pretty risky approach not to be recommended.

i.e

• have same song on different albums you would probably want to keep both
• different versions of same song , want to keep both
• maybe one version is better quality than another want to keep the best one.

There are many applications out there that can duplicates files, as well as my own SongKong does which uses Acoustids and MusicBrainzIds to find duplicates there are plenty of others that would do a better approach than just looking at matching filenames.

[toshni]

If you are an Linux user:

1. Open Terminal
2. Switch to the Music folder
3. type: fdupes -rdN .