Windows Media Player 11 has a way to find and delete the dupes

Using Windows Media Player 11, is there a way to search and remove duplicate music files?

Hi Ibedennis,

You can try the following steps and check:

Method 1:

To resolve this problem, delete the Windows Media Player database. To do this, follow these steps:

a. exit Windows Media Player.

b. click Start, click run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Playerand then click OK.

c. Select all files in the folder and then click on Delete on the file menu.

Note: You don't have to remove the folders that are in this folder.

d. restart Windows Media Player.

Note: Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database.

Method 2:

If this does not resolve the problem, disable the Windows Media Player database cache files. To do this, follow these steps:

a. exit Windows Media Player.

b. click Start, click run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoftand then click OK.

c. Select the Media Player folder, and then click on Delete on the file menu.

d. restart Windows Media Player.

Note: Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database.

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