Progress Bar

Once you have selected how you want SongKong to find duplicates and what you want it to do with them click Start. You will automatically be presented with a progress bar screen whilst SongKong processes your music.

Songs loaded

The first progress bar tells you how many songs have been loaded into SongKong.

Duplicates groups found

This progress bar describes how many duplicates how been found. This number describes the number of groups of duplicate files found that match your delete duplicate criteria. For example, if you set your Song is the same if criteria to be Same MusicBrainz song and same specific album and in your collection you have the song With or Without You by U2 on three copies of the UK release of The Joshua Tree, then this group of three songs will be listed as one group of duplicates. Each duplicate group is listed as one duplicate found.

Duplicates songs deleted

This progress bar tells you how many duplicate songs have been deleted. This number will always be equal to or higher than the number of duplicates found. This is because for every group of duplicate songs found that match your delete duplicate criteria at least one will be deleted, depending upon the size of the group.

For example, if you set your Song is the same if criteria to be Same MusicBrainz song and same specific album and in your collection you have the song With or Without You by U2 on two copies of the UK release of The Joshua Tree then this will be listed as one duplicate group found and one duplicate song deleted ( one of the duplicates will be kept).

However, if using the same criteria, SongKong finds three copies of With or Without You by U2 on the UK release of The Joshua Tree this will be listed as one duplicate group found and two duplicates songs deleted ( one of the duplicates will be kept).

Errors found

The last progress bar lists errors found.

You can pause or stop the process at anytime. Once the process is completed you will be directed to the delete duplicates report.