Is there an automated way to dedupe in picard?

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Another idea for identifying duplicates - Acoustid!! Whatever the solution is we should try to make it fit several use cases. This feels to me like a plugin waiting to be written - with some options: a. Use track / recording MBIDs / AcoustIDs for dedup. b. Merge album data from all files into file being kept - which probably implies that we need a function that avoids this data being lost if you update the tags. c. Options for deciding which file to keep - largest, smallest, newest, oldest …