Find duplicates within the same subfolder

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biber
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Find duplicates within the same subfolder

Post by biber »

Hi,
I am new to everything. I came across it because I try to organize my music collection
Structure is: /Music/Genre/Artist/Album/Track
I taged all with musicbranz picard. But some duplicate albums were merged. Same tracks have the same name. Some habe different file extensions (flac m4a mp3 wac wma) if not they have an added (number).
Is it possible to search for albumfolders where there are some kind of name duplicates?

Thanks fo the Help!
NotNull
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Re: Find duplicates within the same subfolder

Post by NotNull »

This is much easier using Everything 1.5.

With that version you can also search for Title tags.
And as you tagged all music files (using MusicBbrainz Picard), your duplicates will have the same Title (tag).

You can use the following search:

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"X:\your music\folder\"    ext:flac;m4a;mp3;wac;wma    dupe:title;path    addcolumn:title
Replace X:\.. with the actual path to your music.

If your music files are on a (slow) network share, it might take a while before Everything has read all Title tags.
(this can be made instant in the future by using property indexing. But that's for later ...)


This might not be accurate enough for your need. If not, please specify more accurately your environment, as there are definitely more options to get the results you're after.
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