duplicate remover

[Mauro Faccenda]

that's a great idea... but another issue is when the version of the music is 
different (studio, live or acoustic)... which would be the solution for this?

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On Friday 08 June 2007 14:39, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> This bridges on an issue I have.  With over 5000 albums keeping track
> and properly merging songs/albums becomes quite tedious!  Although I'm
> not really concerned with disk usage, having the duplicate, or almost
> duplicate, songs listed on top of each other is messy.
>
> I really despise that the album/song titles are case sensitive.
> Especially "the, The, and, And" etc.
>
> I think your idea could provide a very valuable function, good
> thinking!  One more way to make Amarok that much better!
>
> On 6/8/07, Luke <colorado_mountains2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I want to write a duplicate song remover plugin.  Not
> > just removed from the playlist but deleted from the
> > disk.  I searched the wiki for "duplicate" and didn't
> > find one so I assume it isn't already written.  I want
> > it to be smart: delete the song with the lower
> > bitrate, make softlinks when a compilation is
> > involved, make the most complete ID3 tag replacing
> > "Unknown" with what is known amongst the dups, etc...
> >
> > First step would be to write a bunch of SQL scripts to
> > identify dups.  On that front is the default amarok
> > database sufficient or should I regen my database to
> > the mysql version?  I'm very impressed how amarok can
> > tell if two different songs are in the same album
> > (even when the ID3 tags don't align 1to1) so I should
> > probably research how that works.
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated thanks,
> > Luke