Dupelcates

MusicBrainz Picard
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how do i get rid of the duplicate songs in ubuntu 20

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i saw this A script that removes duplicates from a tag?
but it doesnt make sense to me

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please let me know if there is a easy way or anything ill do whatever to get these songs off my pc with musicbrainz

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From the Introduction section of the Picard User Guide, “Picard cannot… …automatically identify and remove all duplicate music files in your collection.”

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but in that link i posted that guy was able to do it

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He was removing duplicate genre tags, not actual music files. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I believe that you’re looking for a way to automatically remove duplicate files.

For more information, have a look at:

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There are dedicated dedupe utilities. DupeGuru is one I’ve used a bit. It seems to work OK.

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Music players, including iTunes and MusicBee, also have ways to identify duplicates for easy removal.

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Take a look at beets.io and the Duplicates plugin.

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