How to cleanse a playlist, for dublicates?

[Curt]

I totally blame our Darwin for this new problem of mine! He lured me into removing a lot of programs, and now I need to re-install one of them - I just cannot remember which one! Hmm... maybe Darwin is not really the one to blame, after all. Well, to be honest, Darwin is not to blame for this. Sorry, Darwin!
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I made a playlist, but forgot where I was and accidentally added a lot of the same files twice. Windows Media Player doesn't offer to find any duplicates, so now I have to ask you guys, what program can I use to cleanse a playlist, for duplicates, please?! I really don't want to install a lot of players just to see if they can do it...



m3u or wpl, preferable.

Vista 32-bits

[app103]

I know Winamp had this feature, but now days, I am a Trout user, which also has this feature, although I don't think it works for m3u or wpl.

[ha14]

Winamp pcleaner
http://www.winamp.com/plugin/plcleaner2-0/222282

[Curt]

It is just me being brain damaged. Open the playlist in jetAudio, click "sort according to title", and slowly scroll down the re-sorted list: any one listed twice?
Sorry I took your time.  

I have a license for WinAmp Pro 5, so Thank You, ha14, for the link, but I don't want to install WinAmp again on this computer. Besides, >The requested URL /customize/component/2010/4/8/P/plCleaner2.0.exe was not found on this server.< Do you have a copy?

[lanux128]

if you haven't solved the problem yet, you can use Skwire's PlayTime. Load an m3u or wpl, sort, remove the duplicates and save.


• http://skwire.dcmembers.com/wb/pages/software/playtime.php

[Curt]

PlayTime is almost ingenious, but not quite for this job. It doesn't offer to auto-remove duplicates, and it will only list file names, not track names. So, if I have the same number added from two different folders (Original Album, and Best Of), it will not be spotted. But, Thank You ;-)

[lanux128]

my pardon to be wide off-mark but allow me to try again. you may have noticed app's mentioning of Trout, which is Skwire's magnum opus. you can load a playlist (tpl,m3u,pls,wpl), choose to remove duplicates and save the playlist. hth..


• http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16157.0

[skwire]

my pardon to be wide off-mark but allow me to try again. you may have noticed app's mentioning of Trout, which is Skwire's magnum opus. you can load a playlist (tpl,m3u,pls,wpl), choose to remove duplicates and save the playlist. hth..

Unfortunately, it removes duplicates based off of path and it doesn't save to m3u or wpl so I don't think it would help Curt much.

[lanux128]

lol, shows how much i know about the program..

[skwire]

lol, shows how much i know about the program..

Well, to be fair, I really ought to add at least M3U writing support.  =]  Trout can read most major formats like M3U, WPL, ASX etc.  It only writes to its native TPL format, though. 

[ha14]

Hi Curt

I have a license for WinAmp Pro 5, so Thank You, ha14, for the link, but I don't want to install WinAmp again on this computer. Besides, >The requested URL /customize/component/2010/4/8/P/plCleaner2.0.exe was not found on this server.< Do you have a copy?

Sorry dont have it, possible winamp forum can be of help; i searched through the net and cant see it anyware.