Remove duplicate songs and save valuable disk space. Delete annoying, repeating audio tracks from your playlist. Audio Dedupe “Listens” to your songs to find similar and repeating tracks. The tool compares the songs, not the file data, as standard duplicate file finders do. There is no need for the songs to have any ID3 tags for the tool to work, as it analyzes the actual sound. Nevertheless, you can also find similar songs by Title, Artist, and Album. There is also an option to specify similarity when searching for ID3 tags. Set the similarity to 100% to find only exact matches.
Table of Contents
- What Are Duplicate Songs and Why You Should Remove Repeating Tracks
- Why You Need to Remove Duplicate Songs from Your Library
- Common Causes of Duplicate Songs and Repeating Tracks
- How to Find and Remove Duplicate Songs Manually
- Best Tools to Automatically Remove Duplicate Songs and Repeating Tracks
- Organize Your Music Library After You Remove Duplicate Songs
- How to Prevent Duplicate Songs and Repeating Tracks in the Future
- FAQs About How to Remove Duplicate Songs
- Final Thoughts on How to Remove Repeating Tracks Efficiently
1. What Are Duplicate Songs and Why You Should Remove Repeating Tracks
Duplicate songs are multiple copies of the same track stored in different folders or under slightly different names. They may have identical audio content but differ by file format (MP3, FLAC, M4A), bitrate, or metadata tags.
These duplicates can appear when you:
- Import the same album or playlist multiple times.
- Sync music across devices using different apps.
- Re-download songs from streaming services or backups.
- Rename or re-tag files, creating separate versions.
Even a few duplicates can clutter your library, but a large number of repeated tracks can waste storage space, make playlists confusing, and slow down music apps. Learning how to remove duplicate songs and remove repeating tracks keeps your music collection organized and your device storage efficient.
Remove duplicate songs
Download now and organize your songs: Duplicate Songs Finder
Remove Duplicate Songs
Removing duplicate songs is easy as 1, 2, 3.
- Add the folders that you want to clean
- Set “100% Identical Files” for exact duplicate tunes or “Audio Compare” to find similar songs and remixes.
- Hit the “Start Scan” button
- All the duplicate songs will be listed and grouped by similarity.
- Copy, move or delete the duplicate songs
Remove Duplicate Songs
Eliminating repeating songs is as simple as that. Subsequently, there are options to select and remove the songs with the lower quality automatically. The application by default will select those files for removal. You can also select files by date, name, size, path, or any other property.
After you review the results and select the desired files you can delete, copy, or move the files. For example, you can delete the duplicate songs permanently or delete them to the Recycle Bin. On the other hand, the copy option can be used to back up the files. The “Keep folder structure” will recreate the source folder structure in the target location. If you do not need that, disabling the option will copy all the files to the root of the target folder.
The move operation works in the same way as the copy, but it will remove the files from the original locations.
Find 100% Identical Songs
This new release of Audio Dedupe optimizes the exact duplicate matching features – “100% Identical Files”. As a result, the new version works much faster and fixes detection issues in some very rare cases and specific file formats.
The “100% Identical Files” mode as the name suggests finds only exact duplicates. However, duplicates stored in different file formats are not exact duplicates. An audio file that is stored in different formats should be searched with the Audio Compare mode.
The exact duplicate mode performs much faster than the Adio Compare one. However, If you have many duplicates it is best to use it to remove them first. Then using the “Audio Compare” mode will scan fewer files and complete faster.
Do you miss a feature? Do you have a suggestion? Let us know in the comments below!
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I have 4.5.0.1. Please provide link to update for registrants of 4.5.0.1.
Hello
You do not need a link.
Please read the update notification email – it is explained how to update.
gracias
I have tried just about every duplicate audio finder out there. Audio Dedupe is the fastest of them all.
Features that it is lacking, but should be added are:
Add the option to select the external audio playback program to use, instead of leaving it down to the “associated” one. I use iZotope to view and edit waveforms, and Mediamonkey to organise my files. With Audio Dedupe I have to view the files in Explorer, and then use Explorer to open the files in Mediamonkey.
Have an auto backup option of the project for when the program closes. At the moment it loads that last saved project, instead of the last project worked on.
Frequency range of the waveform. It is available on some other programs. Sometimes two identical audio files might be wildly different in their cut off frequency (i.e. mp3types). Deleting the lower quality one is hard to judge in its current form
Hello
Thank you for your comment.
1. You can already open the file with your default application – right click the file and select “Open with associated program”. I’ll ask the developers to add a keyboard shortcut.
2. Just press CTRL+S to save the project and it will be the last saved project.
3. I will add this in the wish-list, but please explain in more details what exactly you mean. Provide some screenshots if possible – you can email them to the support email.