GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 637405
Find Duplicate Songs
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:58:51 UTC
There should be an option to find duplicate songs, probably using track length and similarity of other metadata
We can supposedly already do this using Mirage. But we could do with a less cpu intensive manner of doing this I suspect. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616766
The 'find duplicates' functionality was removed from Mirage.
Bertrand talked in the linked bug about bringing it back, hence the mention.
It would be great to have this feature back.
I have an interesting dilemma in my Banshee player. It's not that I have multiple files that then show up in Banshee - it's that Banshee has, for some reason, added multiple entires for the same file. If you "delete from drive", the file goes away and both (sometimes 3 entries for the same file even) disappear completely. But manually finding them all and "deleting from library" takes forever, considering I have a 25,000+ song library (which currently shows as over 41,000 - that's how many duplicates Banshee has created). A way to easily find duplicate songs and mark them for removal OR deletion is pretty important in my book. P.S. - I hope this was the right place to post this.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.