Can I find duplicate songs with different names?

Question

I have so many duplicate songs but they have different names. Is there an application I can used to find and delete the duplicates?

Answer 1

there are discussions on this matter on community.metabrainz.org going on (see https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-can-i-remove-all-of-my-duplicate-music/20495/8 for example).

additionally a wiki page on wiki.musicbrainz.org is showing an example on how you could find some duplicates:

https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:Find_Duplicate_Music_Files

This wiki boils down to get the deprectated libtunepimp (https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:libtunepimp/Download), install it and use the included trm util in the following script:

find / -regex '.*\(ogg\|mp3\|wav\)' -exec trm '{}' ';' -print0 
   | tr '\n\000' ' \n' 
   | sort 
   | uniq -c -W1 
   | grep -v -e '^ *1' 
   | cut -b9-44 
   | xargs -iXX -n1 grep XX /tmp/trms.log 
 > /tmp/trmdupls.log

in /tmp/trmdupls.log should be a list of all those duplicates. You should make sure there are no false positives in there before deleting all those files blindly.