{"id":14671,"date":"2011-01-26T23:34:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=14671"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:05:23","slug":"identify-duplicate-music-files-in-your-library-with-similarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/identify-duplicate-music-files-in-your-library-with-similarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify duplicate music files in your library with Similarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it&#8217;s not uncommon for people to store their entire music collection digitally. With the ability to purchase entire albums in one easy click, it&#8217;s not hard to see how quickly you can amass files in your library. Unless you&#8217;re super organized (or don&#8217;t mind a mess, alternatively), it&#8217;s easy to end up with an incoherent jumble of music in your library quite quickly.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common problems is ending up with <strong>multiple music files of the same song.<\/strong> Maybe you originally burned the song from an actual CD and later purchased it online. Whatever the case, these duplicate files add clutter to your music library and can be a pain to search out on your own. That&#8217;s where <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/similarity.en.softonic.com\/\">Similarity<\/a><\/strong>, a duplicate music file finder, can be quite helpful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14672\" title=\"Similarity\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/alteredsimilarity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/alteredsimilarity.jpg 602w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/alteredsimilarity-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similarity <strong>searches through your music files<\/strong> and <strong>locates duplicates<\/strong> in short order. You can <strong>search by song name<\/strong> and also <strong>search by the actual sound of each music file<\/strong>. Once identical or similar-sounding music files are located, you can either choose to rename them or delete them entirely. Whatever the choice, Similarity is a godsend for anyone who wants to take control of their messy music library and get it organized quickly and efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it&#8217;s not uncommon for people to store their entire music collection digitally. With the ability to purchase entire albums in one easy click, it&#8217;s not hard to see how quickly you can amass files in your library. Unless you&#8217;re super organized (or don&#8217;t mind a mess, alternatively), it&#8217;s easy to end up with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/identify-duplicate-music-files-in-your-library-with-similarity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Identify duplicate music files in your library with Similarity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-14671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334470,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions\/334470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=14671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}