Find and remove duplicate songs and similar music files with Audio Dedupe. Locate repeating tracks even if they are stored in different file formats and are not marked with ID3 tags. Unlike other duplicate mp3 finders it will "listen" to the music and can recognize a song saved in different file formats. Set the similarity level to 100% to find exact matches or lower it to find variations and remixes of the same song.
Audio Dedupe streamlines the process of removing duplicated songs. It categorizes identical tracks based on similarity, offering a convenient preview through its integrated audio player. This tool enables you to effortlessly mark, delete, or automatically move similar songs, ensuring that you retain tracks with the highest audio quality.
The app is highly optimized, standing out as the sole duplicate music finder capable of efficiently managing millions of music files. Moreover, it maintains a cache of previously analyzed songs, ensuring lightning-fast subsequent searches. No more waiting when adding new songs to your music library, and rest assured, it prevents the importation of duplicates.
Beyond identifying similar songs, our duplicate song finder offers a total of six search modes, including swift options for pinpointing exact duplicates and searching for similarities in ID3 Artist, Title, or Album. It also facilitates folder comparisons for duplicate songs. With support for a wide array of formats such as MP3, MP2, MP1, MPA, WAV, OGG, AIFF, AAC, MP4, FLAC, AC3, WV, MPC, and WMA, it guarantees comprehensive detection of all duplicate music files. Developed over two decades, this tool stands as the ultimate app for organizing songs, encompassing every feature you need to tidy up your music library.
Delete duplicate songs, save valuable disk space and organize audio collections.
Audio Dedupe is a powerful duplicate mp3 finder for removing similar songs or exact duplicate audio files in a folder and its subfolders. It has the following features:
Steps to find and remove duplicate songs:
In "Audio Compare" mode, the tool employs advanced audio analysis techniques that go beyond relying on tags or file names. Instead, it thoroughly examines the actual audio content of music files. This mode ensures a more accurate and comprehensive assessment, identifying similarities and differences based on the sound itself rather than metadata or naming conventions. By utilizing this mode, the duplicate music cleaner enhances its ability to pinpoint duplicates or similar tracks, providing a robust and reliable approach to deduplicating your music library.
Finding repeating tracks is as simple as that. If you want to compare folders or add filter follow this Detailed Tutorial on How To Find Duplicate Audio Files
Steps to find songs with similar or duplicate Title tags:
These three steps will help you efficiently identify and manage duplicates in your music library based on similar titles. The tool performs advanced similarity analysis, even when searching for similar Titles, demonstrating its capability to identify akin titles even when words are rearranged or letters are mistyped. This advanced functionality ensures a thorough and accurate search, accommodating variations in titles and enhancing the precision of the deduplication process within the music library.
Go beyond eliminating cloned songs and organize your songs by Album.
Steps to find songs from the same albums:
These three steps will help you efficiently group songs by album using the option to search for duplicate Album tags in Audio Dedupe. Instead of simply removing duplicate tracks, this mode allows you to use the tool to move your files to separate album folders. This feature ensures that your music collection remains well-organized, with each album neatly stored in its designated folder.
Create separate folders for each artist and move their respective albums into the corresponding folders.
Steps to find all songs and albums from the same artist:
These are just a few of the similar and repeating song search modes available in Audio Dedupe. This tool not only aids in saving disk space by removing redundant songs but also ensures optimal organization of your audio files. This organizational structure facilitates easier management and listening of your music files, even across other applications. Developed over more than 20 years, this robust tool offers a plethora of features for efficient song management.
Duplicate song remover will search for akin and repeating files in the following audio formats:
In SIMILARITY MODE Audio files should be at least 30 seconds in order to provide sufficient data for audio analysis. Files shorter than 30 seconds will not be processed.
The duplicate music remover tool provides multiple scan methods for finding duplicate and similar songs like "Audio Compare",100% Identical Files", "File Size", "ID3 Title", "ID3 Artist", and "ID3 Album".
This mode will find similar songs performing true audio analysis and comparison. It can find similar tunes even if they are not marked with ID3 tags and stored in different audio formats. It analyzes the audio itself and looks for similarity among the files. This mode is different from our Duplicate Image Finder and Duplicate File Finder tools and the differences are explained here - Which Duplicate Finder To Choose?
This scan mode will find exact copies of a song even if it is stored with different name. The mode compares the actual file data and not just size, name or checksum. Tools that scan by checksum like CRC or MD5 may incorrectly list totally different files as duplicates - this is not the case with Audio Dedupe!
This is the fastest of all modes and looks only for files that have the same size and/or extension. Though two files may have the same size and completely different content if you are comparing only files with the same extensions (file types) that is very unlikely.
Find similar file names even if the text is rearranged. This is a true similarity analysis and not just a partial pattern matching mode. For example "Voodoo People" and "Voodoo People (rmx)" will be matched as similar depending on the specified similarity level. Set the similarity level to 100% in order to find only the exact duplicate titles.
This mode will find the song that have the same or similar artist. Setting the similarity lower than 100% will make sure that even if the artist info is specified slightly different in the songs they will be identified.
This mode will group together all songs that are from the same album. As with the previous two modes a similarity percentage can be specified to make sure that even if the album is typed differently the songs will still be grouped together.
While you can remove all duplicate songs and music from computer, drive, network or folder, you can also compare two or more folders for duplicate songs.
You can set a "source" folder in order to exclude it from auto-check and preserve the items inside. There is a per-folder option "Exclude from self-scan" which denotes that the items inside that "source" folder will not be compared with each other - they will be compared only with items from the other folders in the list. Read more on How To Exclude A Folder From Scan
There is also an "Exclude from auto-check" option which can be used separately or in combination with the "Exclude from self-scan option". Ticking the option for the corresponding folder denotes that the items inside will not be marked if the auto-check feature is used. Read more on How To Exclude A Folder From Auto-Check
Command-Line Parameters Usage: (Available only in Corporate Version)
AudioDedupe.exe -src_list <srclistfilename> -target_list <targetfilename> -log <logfilename> -s <similarity> -db <dbfilename> [-cachenames]
-src_list <srclistfilename> - specifies a plain text file which contains file names that you want to compare against <targetfilename> files
-target_list <targetfilename> - specifies a plain text file which contains file names that you want to compare against <srclistfilename> files
If you omit -target_list parameter only -src_list files will be scanned
-log <logfilename> - specifies full path file name where the log from the comparison will be saved, e.g. c:\log.txt
-s <similarity> - specifies a similarity in percents. Example: -s 70
-db <dbfilename> - specifies the cache file name to be used or created.
-cachenames - if this option is specified, the program will store file names in cache instead of files checksum
Cache files store audio files information gathered during the preprocessing pass (1st pass) of the scanning process. So if you often scan the same files, using cache file speeds up considerably the preprocessing pass.
You don't need to create the cache file. Just specify it as a parameter and the program will create it. Or if the cache file from previous scan exists the program will use it. The cache files extension is ADCF (Audio Dedupe Cache File).
Example:
AudioDedupe.exe -src_list "c:\src.txt" -target_list "c:\target.txt" -log "c:\log.txt" -s 70 -db "c:\db.adcf"
This will find all audio files with similarity >= 70% and save their file names and similarity in c:\log.txt file.
If some of the parameters contain spaces, you must enclose them in double quotes.
Example:
-src_list "c:\program files\files.txt".
Sample src.txt and target.txt file contents:
C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (3).mp3 C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (3).mpc C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (4).mp3 C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (4).ogg C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (5).mp3 C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (6).mp3 C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (7).mp3
Sample log.txt file contents:
* DUPLICATES OF * : C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (3).mp3 *** DUPLICATE 1 (SIMILARITY 98) *** : C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (3).mpc * DUPLICATES OF * : C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (4).mp3 *** DUPLICATE 1 (SIMILARITY 95) *** : C:\My Documents\MP3\Track (4).ogg