Find Duplicate Music Files

[Condobloke]

Running LM 20
I have around 1000+ songs/music files, in home/brian/Music/MUSIC AUGUST'20
There are some number of duplicates
Does anyone have a reliable way/app/program etc that will list them and allow me to delete them ?

 

[f33dm3bits]

Do you mean duplicate names or duplicate audio content in the files?

 

[Condobloke]

audio content that has the exact same name....possibly a different format (mp3 vs ogg)

 

[f33dm3bits]

Can you give an example of a few files with duplicate names but but with the different format?

 

[arochester]

This? (In Repository)

https://rmlint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://rmlint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gui.html#installation

 

[Condobloke]

/home/brian/Music/MUSIC AUGUST'20/Frédéric Chopin- Piano Concerto No- 1 e-minor -Olga Scheps live- - DASH.ogg

/home/brian/Music/MUSIC AUGUST'20/Frédéric Chopin- Piano Concerto No- 1 e-minor -Olga Scheps live- - .mp3

At a quick glance that is all i can find.........My need is to delete the duplicate.......it doesnt really matter which format I keep.......they will both play in my music player

 

[Condobloke]

I will pay attention to thos tomorrow, @arochester ....it has been a long day (up since 4am)
Thanks for the links

I did try a couple from the repositories....fdupe among them......with no success

Perhaps after I have had mucho sleepo.....things may look a little differently!

 

[Vrai]

Running LM 20
I have around 1000+ songs/music files, in home/brian/Music/MUSIC AUGUST'20
There are some number of duplicates
Does anyone have a reliable way/app/program etc that will list them and allow me to delete them ?

Just a quick aside;
Be wary of 'de-duplicating' your audio files based on name alone whereas some files may be of better sound quality.

I have a very large collection of music files (approximately 80,000 ) which I have collected over the years from various sources. What I discovered during my de-duplication efforts was that some of the duplicate files were of vastly different sound quality.

 

[stan]

FSlint
sudo apt install fslint

Easy documentation available here can be downloaded in epub or pdf.

 

[Condobloke]

Thanks, @Vrai ...I am awake and ready for another go (5.23am here)

I took a careful look through the list....and it consists of just mp3's now. There were only a few .ogg's mixed in amongst it, so I have used Sound Converter to convert them to mp3's and now they are all the same format.

 

[Condobloke]

Thanks @stan I have tried that one but will give it another go shortly

 

[Condobloke]

Used rmlint...etc etc.....
n total 453 files, whereof 0 are duplicates in 0 groups.
So the problem isd in my music player/organiser.......not much 'organising' going on....in its haste to make sure no tracks are lost it has duplicated itself

yeah...confusing

I eneded up removing ALL tracks from the player, and rescanning the music folder.

Job done

Thanks for the input..... In future I will look before I leap

 

[Hillbilly H]

LOL i found debstep and i know i did not downloaded it!

P.S. Oops i posted in the wrong spot.

 

[aksjoshi01]

Running LM 20
I have around 1000+ songs/music files, in home/brian/Music/MUSIC AUGUST'20
There are some number of duplicates
Does anyone have a reliable way/app/program etc that will list them and allow me to delete them ?

I have figured out a way to delete only text files in linux. I have written a C program which displays the duplicate files and deletes them only if the user desires to.