SongKong can identify duplicate songs in your music collection, tidying up your song library and freeing up space on your computer or device.
First use the Select button to find the music files you want SongKong to process and click on the Delete Duplicates icon. In this window you can set up how SongKong identifies duplicates and what you want it to do with the duplicates it finds (delete them immediately or store in a duplicates folder). Click on Start and let SongKong begin searching your collection.
By default SongKong identifies duplicates if they have the Same title and album name, ( metadata only). This default setting allows you to delete duplicates even if you haven't fixed your songs yet and also to use the Delete Duplicates tool within the trial version.
It is usually best to fix songs before you delete duplicates so that you get more accurate results. For example, if your music library contains inaccurate data with songs saved as Track 1, Track 2 etc then under the default setting for finding duplicates (same title and album) songs may be identified as duplicates because they have the same title even though they could be completely different, however, if your music collection is reasonably well organized this is unlikely to be a problem.
SongKong can detect if you have fixed your songs already or not and will automatically flag up an alert before you proceed with the default option before fixing songs to be sure you want to proceed with that option.
If you have fixed songs already and found MusicBrainz and Acoustic Id matches for your songs then you can achieve more accurate results and select from a range of criteria to identify duplicates to suit your needs. You may also choose to use different criteria to identify duplicates within different parts of your music collection or to repeat the process with different criteria, depending on your needs.