Duplicate file removal
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Hello
I got ALOT of music, i have about 20k of songs i know its alot but i have all my parents music as well, i have a few songs which are repeated though for example
Beatles
The beatles
beatles
And they are all the same song, so what i need to do is find someway to find all the duplicated version of a song and put it into a folder so the setup would be like
Music Duplicated - (dupated song) - then songs
so it moves them into a folder and then into a sub folder with the band name
Im just not sure how to do this.
I got ALOT of music, i have about 20k of songs i know its alot but i have all my parents music as well, i have a few songs which are repeated though for example
Beatles
The beatles
beatles
And they are all the same song, so what i need to do is find someway to find all the duplicated version of a song and put it into a folder so the setup would be like
Music Duplicated - (dupated song) - then songs
so it moves them into a folder and then into a sub folder with the band name
Im just not sure how to do this.
I would have suggested using hashes to see if the files are identical, then remove one of them.
However, I tested it and if the ID3 tags are different for both files (that's the artist information you can set in the file properties), the hash will not be the same.
So unless your duplicate files are exactly the same song and have the exact same ID3 tags, I don't think there's a reliable way to find duplicates. I may be wrong, though...
However, I tested it and if the ID3 tags are different for both files (that's the artist information you can set in the file properties), the hash will not be the same.
So unless your duplicate files are exactly the same song and have the exact same ID3 tags, I don't think there's a reliable way to find duplicates. I may be wrong, though...
I dont want to remove them just put them into a folder on their own
So you would have a setup like
Music dupliacate
-Artist A
-Tack 1
-Track 1(2)
-Atrist B
-Artist C
So you would have a setup like
Music dupliacate
-Artist A
-Tack 1
-Track 1(2)
-Atrist B
-Artist C
Remove them, move them somehwere else... It doesn't matter
The problem is that you're trying to identify duplicate files in the first place, and as I've mentionned previously, the only way I can think of this being possible is by checking the hashes of the files, which will be different if the ID3 tags aren't identical as well as the contents.
The problem is that you're trying to identify duplicate files in the first place, and as I've mentionned previously, the only way I can think of this being possible is by checking the hashes of the files, which will be different if the ID3 tags aren't identical as well as the contents.
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