{"id":327,"date":"2018-11-08T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:42:48","slug":"finding-and-removing-duplicate-songs-from-windows-media-player-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/finding-and-removing-duplicate-songs-from-windows-media-player-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding and Removing Duplicate Songs from Windows Media Player 12, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Windows Media Player<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the first name that pops up in the minds of most people when they are asked about their earliest memories of listening to their favorite artist or watching a movie to unwind after a hectic day at work. This does not suggest that there weren\u2019t other players around, but <\/span><b>Media Player<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (as it is commonly known) was the leader of the pack by some distance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast forward several years, <\/span><b>Windows Media Player<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has evolved from a firm market leader to an important player, and has been successful in retaining its place amid the spawning of its younger peer, <\/span><b>Groove<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Besides the most well-known tasks of playing audio and video, <\/span><b>Media Player<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also helps users rip <\/span><b>CD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, and burn <\/span><b>Audio CD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s as well as <\/span><b>MP3 CD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s. The default file formats are <\/span><b>Windows Media Video<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (wmv), <\/span><b>Windows Media Audio<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (wma), and the playlists are stored in <\/span><b>Windows Playlist<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (WPL).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With today\u2019s extremely fast and pacy lifestyle not leaving most people unaffected, most users tend to download songs without paying attention to organizing them into a well-crafted music database. The user might have saved the song(s) to the default download location, or to the last location which was used to save an important file, e.g. an official document. The advent of super-fast <\/span><b>Internet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> speeds have also contributed to this mess as people don\u2019t bother about looking up for the song which they know is sitting somewhere on the hard drive, and they instead proceed to re-download the song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a pretty quick solution as far as finding the concerning song goes, however users end up wasting a huge amount of their hard disk over time. They run the risk of landing into a serious mess at some point in the future and will have to either pump up a significant sum of money to purchase an additional hard disk or will have no option other than deleting some data from the hard disk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one of those scenarios which might seem all daunting and scary to an average computer user, however, they can be easily fixed by mixing up a neat technique (very easy to implement) as well as a computer-oriented solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QZobYvYR5YA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First up, we will get towards sweeping the duplicates from all locations. <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a purpose-built software program, and it performs the job of sweeping clean all kinds of duplicates with a perfect degree. You can also use it to remove any duplicates on your <\/span><b>Google Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><b>OneDrive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> accounts directly on the cloud! We will pen down more details on these cloud scan options some day in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming back to the topic, we can assure you that <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will weed out duplicate songs, even if, say 2 copies of the same song are named differently. This is because this software is intelligent enough to dive into the hash of each song and compare it with others, rather than looking out for the name. Another cool aspect is that <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> requires minimal human input, so it is an ideal solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and install <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launch the software and use the green <\/span><b>Add<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button to add up as many locations on your computer as you think might contain duplicates. Selecting an entire drive or simply going for <\/span><b>This PC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is also a good idea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the next step, you can select <\/span><b>Custom<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | <\/span><b>Music<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so that the whole scan is concentrated on a select file type, and finishes much earlier than a universal file type scan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you think you want to scan for duplicate videos as well, select the <\/span><b>Videos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> option in the last step also.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_328\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-328\" src=\"http:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image1-300x97.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image1-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image1-80x26.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image1.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><strong>Selecting custom file types for duplicate scan<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now simply click the rectangular <\/span><b>Start Search<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button to launch the scan. The scan might take a while to be over as you must have a huge collection of music\/ video files in the computer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the scan is over, you will be shown summarized scan results along with the <\/span><b>Fix Wizard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Review &amp; Fix<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> buttons. We recommend going for the latter, as it provides you with more options on what you might want to do with the duplicates.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_329\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-329\" src=\"http:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image2-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image2-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image2-80x38.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image2.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><strong>Summarized scan results<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will now be seeing the duplicates in the form of a list in the <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> user interface. You can even click the <\/span><b>Music<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Videos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tabs if you wish to check out specific file types.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b><i>Note:<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> For your convenience, <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contains a basic media player as well, which can be found just next to the results. You can use it if you\u2019re not sure about a particular audio\/ video file.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you can manually select the files for further action by clicking on the checkbox before every file. Once you\u2019ve selected the files, click <\/span><b>Select Action<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, make your call and you\u2019re done. However, this option isn\u2019t recommended when the number of duplicates runs into hundreds (or beyond), and so we move to the next step.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the green <\/span><b>Select Duplicates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button to choose which kind of duplicates you want to retain. All the available options are very simple and self-explanatory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The final step is about clicking <\/span><b>Select Action<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and choosing between permanently deleting the duplicates or backing them up to a folder. However, going for the former is recommended.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that you\u2019ve removed all the duplicates from your computer (and <\/span><b>Windows Media Player<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), you should also repopulate the <\/span><b>Media Player<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> library to remove all duplicate entries from it. This can be done very easily by following this method.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press the <\/span><b>Windows Key<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> + <\/span><b>R<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shortcut combination to bring up the <\/span><b>Run<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> window.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Type in <\/span><b>%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Microsoft\\<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and press <\/span><b>Enter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Locate the <\/span><b>Windows Media<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> folder and delete it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you relaunch <\/span><b>Windows Media Player<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it will rebuild the library and remove all the duplicate entries from the library.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s it, folks. Keeping your data nicely organized is a must, so that you can quickly find a particular file without wasting any time. Another huge benefit which is too important to be ignored is that you will erase duplicates and free up invaluable hard disk space.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Media Player is the first name that pops up in the minds of most people when they are asked about their earliest memories of listening to their favorite artist or watching a movie to unwind after a hectic day at work. 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