If you‘ve accumulated a huge music library over time, chances are that you might have unknowingly included a significant amount of duplicate songs in it. It’s more likely that your media player plays the same song over and over again because you have acquired a large chunk of duplicate files unless you set your player to shuffle tracks.
You may not realize how many GBs of the hard disk are occupied by duplicate files until your computer runs into low disk space and needs a thorough cleaning. Before you go for purchasing a new hard disk, it is a nice idea to make good use of the native Windows tools to free up storage space by getting rid of junk data of all kinds. Tools such as Disk Cleanup prove very handy. Try them out and be amazed.
However, when it comes to scanning and subsequently getting rid of duplicates, Windows does lag behind. This is one of those areas where you have to search for a third-party solution and put it to use. One of the most bankable and reputable software programs that can easily delete duplicate songs for you is Clone Files Checker.
Duplicate copies of the same song mean a nightmare is upon you. They cause disorganization in the songs library as well as eating up storage space for no good. Even worse is the fact that it is very difficult to find duplicates by their names as they are scattered across different drives, folders, and sub-folders. Besides, searching by names isn’t an advisable path because that means any duplicates named differently will simply evade the scan.
The only real way of solving this issue is to scan your computer for duplicate songs and delete them.
It can also scan your USB flash drive, SSD card, external hard drive for duplicate songs. It includes neat functionality to select custom files, exclude unwanted directories. If you want to scan only a particular set of files, say music, select the Custom and Music options.
Once you’ve been presented the scan results, you can even click the Export List option and opt to save the scan results in the .csv format.
Using this tool will not only help you reclaim lost storage space as well as organize your data in an improved way, but it’ll also indirectly help improve your work productivity courtesy the positive effects of the duplicate cleanup.
All you’re required to do is perform a scan, and Clone Files Checker will look for all the music files formats and bring the results of the duplicate songs scan within minutes on your screen.
The Procedure
- Download and install Clone Files Checker from its official website.
- Launch the software and locate the Add button on the left-hand side panel of the user interface. Click it and select the drive/ folder which you want to scan. You can add multiple drives/ folders for a single scan.
- Click the Exclude from Scan tab and add any directories which you want to be left out of the scan.
- The next stage involves selecting the file types for the scan. Since this article is about scanning for songs, select Custom | Music.
- Similarly, you may further limit the scan by setting it up to exclude files that are bigger/ smaller than a certain size range or even limiting the scan within a file size range.
- Now that you’re all done, click Start Search to initiate the scan.
- The scan might take a while to conclude, depending on the number of files to be scanned.
- Once the scan is over, a pop up will inform you of the number of duplicate songs detected as well as the storage space lost to them. Click Review & Fix in it.
- Now you will be viewing all the duplicates listed out in the user interface. Click Select Duplicates and choose an option of your choice.
- Click Select Action in the last step, and choose whether you want to delete the duplicates to the Recycle Bin or back them up to a folder of your choice.
Note: If you want to view the details of any scan carried out in the past, you can do so via the History tab.
That’s it. Getting rid of duplicate songs in 2019 is so much easy, all thanks to the abilities packed inside Clone Files Checker.
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Raza Ali Kazmi works as an editor and technology content writer at Sorcim Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. He loves to pen down articles on a wide array of technology related topics and has also been diligently testing software solutions on Windows & Mac platforms. If you have any question about the content, you can message me or the company's support team.