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I have Rhythmbox 2.97 on 32bit Ubuntu 12.10.

I have a large number of duplicate music entries that don't show up in my music folder.

I really would like to know if there's any plugin or any means to get rid of them.

fossfreedom
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Ryk van Donselaar
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It's happened to me a few times...

The easy way to solve this issue is:

  1. Open "Home"
  2. Press Ctrl+h (this will show your hidden files and folders)
  3. Navigate to .local/share/rhythmbox
  4. Delete rhythmdb.xml
  5. Restart Rhythmbox

The rhythmdb.xml file contains the music library info for Rhythmbox, by deleting it, you'll be forcing rhythmbox to re-check the library, thus getting rid of the repeated entries.

Kevin Bowen
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Some blogger wrote a GUI tool which automatically removes the duplicate entries from the rhythmbox database (without touching the actual files):

sudo apt-get install python-tk
wget -P /tmp blog.tappir.com/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
chmod +x /tmp/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
python /tmp/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py

Reference: http://blog.tappir.com/?p=13

stackoverflowuser95
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In Rythmbox, open your music list, all music, select all, remove. This will not remove your music, just the listings in the program. After that import music will recreate your music list with no duplicates.

There doesnt appear to be a menu to repopulate the music list, without getting a duplicate listing. This drove me nuts every time I ripped a music cd.

Lyle Kannenberg
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I was very much disappointed to find that Rhythmbox had started to "create" duplicates of my tracks. These turned into triplicates and further after my desperation turned me to online "solutions". Eventually though using Nautilus or equivalent File Viewer I discovered that my Music Folder + Backups had increased in size dramatically. Looking through the contents revealed that a link had been created from one Music Folder to another which I had named OldMusic and inserted into each Music Folder; instantly tripling the size on disc. Remove this link and things return to normal apart from the anger, irritation and suspicion!

CAL
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