Users have been complaining that adding the OneDrive folder to search for music files in Groove proves to be a bad move as it can lead to duplication in Groove’s playlist. Solution 3: Remove Songs’ Folder from One Drive Click Done at the end to make the changes permanent Add :\Users\%username%\Music for Groove to fetch music files from. Click the cogwheel icon to open settingsĩ. Click to open it from the search resultsħ. Search for Groove Music from the Start menuĦ. Now copy all the music files from your computer to this folderĥ. So you can prevent duplication in Windows 10 provided you save your entire music collection in a single folder only.Ĥ.
If two files have different names with identical contents, Windows will fail to recognize them as duplicates. Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that sounds an alarm and prevents it from storing duplicate files in the same folder, but this method only works if the duplicate files have exactly the same names. Solution 2: Keep All Your Music in a Single Folder Once the scan is over, you will click on Fix Wizard to remove all the duplicate music files in one go. Click on Start Search to launch the duplicate scan.ġ0. Select Custom and then Music (for specifying file types).ĩ. Open Clone Files Checker and add exactly the same folders which you specified to Groove in the previous step, to the Select drive/folder (Step 1) sectionĨ. This will help Groove to specifically scan these folders and create playlists.ħ. Add all the root folders that contain your music collection. Click on Choose where we look for musicĦ. Once Groove opens, click on the Cog icon to open settingsĥ. Solutions Solutions 1: Use Clone Files CheckerĤ. Now let’s take a detailed look at various solutions we have come up with for this issue. The easiest, efficient and most time effective way to get rid of all kinds of dupes (including music files) is to use Clone Files Checker.
This article talks specifically about duplicate music files in Groove and how to remove them from the system in an easy way. All they are good for is eating up valuable hard disk space, slowing down searches for any particular file the user might undertake (manual or otherwise) and last but not least they greatly contribute to the continuous Low Disk Space warnings if they aren’t cared for in the beginning. Duplicate files are a needless hassle for the user.
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