I’ve been lurking here for a while, trying to learn and set up my own stuff. I’m starting off with music. I have a few thousand files in different formats and plenty of duplicates.

I already have an Emby server set up and it works very well.

However, is there a music manager that will help me find and eliminate duplicates?

I’m using Linux Mint and I’m still figuring out how to set up the various users and groups so that the software can access where my music is stored.

I’m thinking Lidarr but - as mentioned - something about setting up users and a media group and doing the permissions is not clicking.

For Emby to work, I’ve made the music directory a shared location and opened guest access.

Any pointers to step by step guides on any of this would be very helpful as well.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It will depend on “how duplicate” they are.

    I’d use a file renamer that uses id3 tags, which will help find duplicates. It’ll ask you to rename/skip/delete dupes.

    There are probably better methods tho 🤷‍♂️