Mp3 Duplicates Finder

I used to spend a lot of time downloading music. With the move and then the fact that I haven’t heard any song (that I don’t already own) that interests me, it’s safe to say that my iPod is rather full and more than likely going to be staying that way for a while. On my external hard drive, however, I house all of the MP3’s that are located on my iPod, as well as ones that I never got around to transferring to it. The problem is, I used to use mp3 download programs before I got myself into iTunes, now since I can download whole albums at a time there are quite a few songs on my external drive that are literally duplicates of other files, this I find to be rather annoying but I don’t have the energy to sit down and go through them all.

Today I came across a website where you can download a program to resolve all of the issues I’m currently having with my MP3’s, head on over to the Duplicates Finder website for previews and what not. This program uses specific methods for duplicates detection. Some programs use file size or name for comparison. Their program uses the artists name, and title of the song from ID3 tag comparison. If the MP3 file doesn’t have the proper filled tags, the program tries to determine the information for you. It works with either mp3, wma, ogg and m4a files. It scans your computer, marks duplicates for deletion and overall will clear out many useless duplicated files from your computer. Makes it easier to have a more organized Playlist, I’d say.

If you’re at all interested in the program you can download Duplicates Finder and then run the free trial. If you’re interested in using the script for quite some time (those of you whom download regularly) you should consider purchasing it. There’s the option for a $19USD single license, for use on one computer. There’s also the option for a $29USD family license to use at any number of family computers. I’d say it’s worth the shot, I’m running mine now and so far it’s finding more than I thought it would, not too shabby.