Duplicated Files

[mbrazil05]

when attempting to renamed and save a large group of files, MP3Tag will throw up a list of files it says can't be renamed and saved because IF SAVED they would be duplicates. Is there a way i can get these so called duplicated files to autodelete OR placed into a separate folder called "duplicates" so that the larger group of files can be saved.

As it stands now, I have to sort the files by "title" and search individually through the list and delete the duplicated file and then save the files. Please help.

[ohrenkino]

See e.g. here:

Is there a way to auto-delete or move duplicate files upon erros renaming?

I have a single file with my .mp3 files in. I always use the command to rename as %artist% - %title% to minimise duplicates (music library used for DJing, so don't care about having pristine album collections with all tracks, including duplicates and so on). Sometimes I run the Tag - Filename action from the menu bar using my chosen filename convention. However, I will sometimes get errors saying a file cannot be renamed, which is where the file already exists and it cannot rename due to it bei…

(There is no other solution than to manually check whether the files are really duplicates or not and if not, modify the tags correspondingly)

[Valik]

You could rename the files with a special character attached at the end so there will be no conflicts. Then use another renaming program to remove the special characters that gives you the option to skip conflicts. At this point you could just delete all the files that still have the special character.

[ohrenkino]

@Valik

You could rename the files with a special character

... which is more or less the suggestion from the linked thread:

Is there a way to auto-delete or move duplicate files upon erros renaming?

No to both options. If you want to delete the files later anyway, without the check whether the files are really duplicates or just poorly tagged (as they are in fact the live version, the dub, the remix etc), you could do 2 runs to rename the files: First rename them with (2 trailing underscores) Then rename them again, this time without the trailing underscores. All the alleged duplicates will be left over with those trailing underscores which could easily be filtered with %_filename% H…

[mbrazil05]

thank you. I got it all figured out with everyone's help.