Ubuntu – How to remove duplicate tracks from Banshee

You can use fdupes like the answer for question »How to find and delete duplicate files« suggested. Let me give an example:

mkdir -p "Music/Prefuse 73/One Word Extinguisher/"
dd if=/dev/urandom of=Music/Prefuse\ 73/One\ Word\ Extinguisher/07.Detchibe.mp3 bs=1023 count=2048
  2048+0 records in
  2048+0 records out
  2095104 bytes (2.1 MB) copied, 0.379806 s, 5.5 MB/s
cp Music/Prefuse\ 73/One\ Word\ Extinguisher/07.Detchibe.mp3 Music/Prefuse\ 73/One\ Word\ Extinguisher/"07 - Detchibe.mp3"
fdupes -rd .
  [1] ./Music/Prefuse 73/One Word Extinguisher/07.Detchibe.mp3
  [2] ./Music/Prefuse 73/One Word Extinguisher/07 - Detchibe.mp3

  Set 1 of 1, preserve files [1 - 2, all]:

First I created the directory like in your example. The I made a file from random data and copied its contents to another files. When I run fdupes -rd the software finds the two exact files and asks which one to delete.

If you have lots of files, you can use the option -1. fdupes will print all duplicates on a single line. You can process them with xargs and other shell features.

It's happened to me a few times...

The easy way to solve this issue is:

1. Open "Home"
2. Press Ctrl+h (this will show your hidden files and folders)
3. Navigate to .local/share/rhythmbox
4. Delete rhythmdb.xml
5. Restart Rhythmbox

The rhythmdb.xml file contains the music library info for Rhythmbox, by deleting it, you'll be forcing rhythmbox to re-check the library, thus getting rid of the repeated entries.