Too much music!

OK, I was trying to figure out where my hard drive went and I found that I have 20Gb of music (NOOO!!!!)...OK, is there a way to go through my music folder and delete all the duplicates?

 

Yep, the hard way and the hard way. OR you can download some utility like MP3-FileCompare, which crawls through selected directories (even networked ones) and finds duplicates. That will take some time, I think.

Added: Oh, and my preferred download manager site has this list:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/mp3_duplicates_info/index1.htm

 

Or you can add all of them to the itunes library, and then go to View > Show duplicates. Delete them from the library and send them to the trash.

 

ahh I think that's probably the easiest way thanks guys

 

as I ended up doing it the easy way...but the hard way. I will try to help you out (unless you're not an idiot like me).

Open it all in iTunes, View>Show Duplicates, and going through the list, remember to hold Ctrl and click the songs and delete all of them at once, I did them all individually.

 

This is still a hard method, since you are still having to go down the playlist selecting every other track for deletion. I think it is absolutely pathetic that iTunes does not offer an easy way to delete duplicates, considering how easy it creates duplicate files.

 

agreed, iTunes also won't separate the duplicates even if they are on different albums, which makes it even harder.