Does this program exist?

I have put all of my music CDs on a hard drive but for some reason many songs were copied multiple times. I've got almost 25 gigs of music and want to get rid of the duplicates. It will take forever to go through them all one at a time.

I'm looking for a program that will find duplicate files. I've found a few on download.net or com or something that were free, but they won't do anything unless I pay 30 bucks for a license.

I've used the Windows search feature using *.* and searching just the music folder, but it returns folders with duplicate files in them, not just files.

Is there a free program out there that will seek out duplicate files?

Thanks in advance.

www.nonags.com is good for truly free software that works without nagging or payment.

A quick search for "duplicate" found 10 pages of hits.

Scottes wrote in post #8413941
www.nonags.com is good for truly free software that works without nagging or payment.

A quick search for "duplicate" found 10 pages of hits.

Awesome! Thanks! I'm there right now... The next round is on me!

Im Sasquatch wrote in post #8414024
=I'm Sasquatch;8414024]Awes​ome! Thanks! I'm there right now... The next round is on me!

CRC32 is your friend if you can find it. Not as user friendly, but will let you spot different files even when the names are the same, and also great for double checking the integrity of your backup disks.

iTunes finds them, but doesn't make it easy to delete the dups.

I just downloaded Itunes (catastrophic hard drive failure) and it found everything. If I delete a song through Itunes, will it delete the song from everywhere else on my computer?

It looks like Itunes created a new folder on my C drive with all of my music from several other sources. If I can clean up just that new folder, I can delete everything else and have a 'fresh' folder. That would be nice.

Edit... I see what you mean about Itunes. I thought I could check a bunch of stuff and delete it all at once. No such luck. Oh well. As long as I'm glued to the computer for a while every day, I might as well clean this stuff up.

Thanks for the help.

Edit 2.0... The control button is my friend! Deleting songs just got a lot faster.

I've seen Fast Duplicate File Finder mentioned elsewhere, supposed to be good and free.

There are some very good grep tools out there too... but they are not free.

Another very good option is to use MediaMonkey to manage your music... forgot about that one. Then, check here:

Can MediaMonkey help me find and delete duplicate tracks?
http://www.mediamonkey​.com …elete_duplicate​_tracks%3F

If you decide that you like it, you can get a lifetime license for $39.95 for the "Gold" version. You can do quite a bit with the free version, so I'd really recommend that you check it out.

MediaMonkey is excellent.

Why not just write a Perl script to traverse a directory and check for duplicate filenames and delete if desired? You can even md5 the discovered duplicates to check if they're the same.

ocabj wrote in post #8447045
Why not just write a Perl script to traverse a directory and check for duplicate filenames and delete if desired? You can even md5 the discovered duplicates to check if they're the same.

1. Not everyone knows perl.
2. Not everyone wants to know perl