How can I remove duplicate songs from my library?

[Biggncoo]

Winamp V5.5
Windows XP

I am switching from Itunes to Winamp and I loaded all my media, but I some duplicates. In Itunes there is a feature called find duplicate songs, and I could delete them. How can I do that in winamp???

When I right click in the library there is a remove > remove dead files or physically remove from library.

Thank you.

[Brian P]

In the playlist, click the [-] minus button, then Remove -> Remove duplicate files.

Edit: On second thought, I re-read your post and realize you meant remove from your media library. I don't think Winamp does that yet, but someone else may know of a way.

[IndieRockSteve]

Is there a way to just have Winamp *list* the duplicate entries? I have "duplicates" because i have "duplicate" files (ie they may not actually be the exact same file, just the same track by the same artist from different sources). I'd like to see what duplicates it finds then be able to choose which ones to delete the physical files of.

thanks!

[LeadFoot]

I really hesitate to make this recommendation, but the Godfather is still the best way I've found. (organized tab, find duplicates). It will show you all the details (bitrate, tag info, etc.) giving you all you should need to see if you think it is accurate. (http://users.forthnet.gr/the/jtclipper/)

However, TGF hasn't seen a new final release in something like two years, and it is starting to puke on FLAC files that MP3TAG has no problems with (nor winamp or foobar or...anything else.) It is still the most powerful tagger out there, but it is definitely in need of an update.

[IndieRockSteve]

yea, I've been using TGF for tagging for a loooong time, haven't thought about trying it's find duplicates though. Thanks for the idea!

[gfody]

Bump!
Duplicates in media library is causing me some pain. I want to consolidate multiple disparate music collections from my LAN. I can't do this now because of all the overlap.

[ScrollSoul]

Deleting from the Library

I got tired of the problems with realplayer & so I installed Winamp on Monday. I had no problems with deleting songs & artist from the library. I'm not sure how to exactly explain what I do but I'll give it a go.

When I double-click "Audio" under "Local Media" a window
opens to the right listing all the artist & tracks.

That Window is divided with another box on the right for Albums. Then below that is an empty box that is separated by a gray divider line.

I move my mouse cursor on the divider line and a double arrow appears. I move the arrow up and underneath a full length box appears that has the labels:

Artist, Album, track#, Title, genre, & so on.

I scroll down to the artist or song I want to delete. I click on it and it becomes highlighted. I right-click on the highlighted song and at the bottom of the dialogue box it has a button "Remove from Library".

I clicked on that button and the song or artist is then gone.

I moved the window backdown so I could see the original window.

You will see that the song or artist is still listed on that window. But if you close Winamp completely and reopen it, you will find that the song or artist has been removed.

I hope the description was clear enough to understand. By the way, I'm using Winamp Modern that has the blue screen.

[philipr]

the only way i can work out is to remove all entries from the media lib and rescan everything. Whilst it takes a bit of time to do this it is easy enough if all you music is under one place such as my music. Obviously more of a pain if iin multiple locations.
To clear media lib you go to options, preferences, media library, local media and click the clear media library button. Then just go back to add media and re add all you music / media.

[kaatinthehaat]

Clearing the music library unfortunately also removes al the rating and last play date information.

[TimurArmin]

I'm also experiencing similar problem in my windows XP based PC. Thankfully whatever suggestions I get from here will be helpful to recover such problem nicely.

[MrSinatra]

those posts are from 2008 and earlier.

look at this:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=346808

there's physical files that are dupes, and then separately dupes in the ML DB which are just erroneous entries that need removed. i do "remove missing files" in the watch folders option, and i also remove missing files from the bottom left library button as well.

[Xennex]

For what it's worth,

MediaMonkey had a media library entry in Music -> Files to Edit -> Duplicate Titles.

It will list all files that have the same title. If you then choose "Show art with details" from the dropdown icon, you will usually have a convenient way of seeing the dupes (if the Album tag is the same for all files).

[MrSinatra]

thx, but what i am looking for mainly is audio fingerprint analysis. there's things out there, but i have yet to get serious on this.

[Xennex]

I know, but TimirArmin asked for regular dupes scans, and MediaMonkey hadn't been mentioned yet.

[kertison]

Re: How can I remove duplicate songs from my library?

Winamp V5.5
Windows XP

I am switching from Itunes to Winamp and I loaded all my media, but I some duplicates. In Itunes there is a feature called find duplicate songs, and I could delete them. How can I do that in winamp???

When I right click in the library there is a remove > remove dead files or physically remove from library.

Thank you.

You can physically remove those duplicate files from your library as per the given direction but it's quite embarrassing.I'll recommend "Duplicate Files Deleter" to use for hassle free solutions.

Thanks.