The more MP3s you have, the more likely you are to have duplicates wasting your precious hard drive space. Granted, you can go out and buy 15GB hard drives at some wholesale place, but just like any "spacious" medium, you'll definitely fill it up and it'll often happen faster than you expected it to.

Enter the Duplicate Finder.

First you'll have to decide what set of files to check for duplicates-- you can choose from the currently open folder, the playlist contents, your virtual-drives, or any combination of the three.

Second, you must choose what criteria to determine a possible set of duplicates. The most common is ID3 Title. This is great if your collection is mostly tagged files. ID3 Artist and Album options are also available and come in handy in certain cases. If your files aren't tagged, then matching by filename or file size are the tools of choice.

Press Start, and seconds later, you should have a nice list of possible duplicates to peruse.

Over the life of your MP3 collection, you are bound to find hundreds of megabytes' worth of duplicates, so don't take this tool for granted :)

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