Duplicate Songs In Library

I have the same problem..
I started using songbird when 0.6.1 version comes out, and I really hope to use this player as my default player, but then I moved some musics in order to rearrange some musics in local pastes and searched for new media, and an error occurred: the moved musics didn't appeared and the ones which should be removed, were still there... Than I've migrated to 0.7 and I scanned again for new media, and those ghost musics disappeared. The only problem now is that I have 2 or 3 musics with the same path in my library...

How can I do that?

thanks... I have finally resolved my only problem... thank you

The same thing has happened to me. I tried your approach, and now I have 1 more duplicate of every song than I did before.

I have the same. Duplicate songs, duplicate artist names. When I wanted to fix it and retype "artist" in metadata it duplicated artist name on the list.



What's even more frustrating is that there are 4 times "John 5" each containing exactly the same song (only one). The gerne of the song is "Instrumental Rock".
Soo i filtered by gerne and got one "John 5" artist and the rest of the songs (!) that were invisible when filter was set on "all gernes".

It's wierd and messy. I am affraid to start organizing my collection with Songbird because I'm affraid it will mess it up. Probably I have to wait for further Songbird upgrades.

"The Exorcist" - http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/216
This is the best extension to solve this problem, it worked almost flawlessly for me. You have a list view for duplicate tracks and another list view for ghost tracks (tracks that are on the library but don't exist on your hard drive anymore). I'm using that extension and it seemed to solve my duplicate track problems when I reorganize my music :)

I am already using Exorcist (it rocks btw). But does not solve the problem. There are no duplicate or ghost songs according to The Exorcist.
I suppose there is something wrong with Filter Pane.
Filter Pane Errors:
1. Not filtered library does NOT show all the songs.
2. Artist filter shows duplicate Artists (two or more with the same name and songs)
3. Artist filter does NOT show all the songs by artist.
4. Filtering by gerne shows all the songs (and that's probably only filtering that works so far. The rest has errors)

So what's more worrying, it's not a problem of duplicates but the problem of basic filtering functionality.
Of course I can delete everything and reimport it but my tags will be lost (and all the work with organizing is wasted). Can't afford to make it over and over again.
What is most appealing for me in Songbird is future managing big collection of music because I can't say it does the job at the moment.

Thanks Erik for Your reply.
I haven't turned "Managed Mode" on, so Songbird didn't move or copy my files. They are in folder structure I've created before installing Songbird.

Should I turn it on and let Songbird manage/move/copy my files?
It wouldn't be much trustworthy if folder structure was crucial for keeping your collection clean.

OK. I think I solved that Issue.
You have to be very careful and start Your songbird experience WITH SOME INSTRUCTIONS!!
Or a wizard or sth :-)
I'm not a noob.
But I found that if You want Songbird to be sucessful manager You have to let it do things it's own way.
The solution was:
1. Create Library folder.
2. Create Watch folder.
3. For God Sake Library Folder and Watch Folder MUST be different. If set te same folder for both You will end up in mess eventually.
4. Import your files in small packages (eg Artist by Artist) and check out whether Songbird did everything correctly. If not Remove from library, delete files from folder, reimport and pray, for some unknown reason praying works :-P
5. Use Your Watch folder cause it is cool. Drop Your files and delete them after Songbird sucessfully added them to library and copied to library folder.

In the end. TO DEVELOPERS:
Your product seems to work fine. But user needs to know that it performs well ONLY when You follow certain rules.
Let people know the rules from the very beginning to avoid lot's of users get frustrated. Keep in mind that only few of those who are experiencing problems with software bother to post on forums.

Cheers

I have a folder in my library folder called "Add music through here" With some weird characters at the beginning to keep it at the top of the list. I drag all my music in the there and let songbird rearrange it for me. Works like a charm!

most of the duplicates I've encountered came when I started to bring my .m3u playlists into song bird after I imported my library of music. Not sure why I need to import playlists at all...this is a really dumb function imho...my previous player, musicmatch, which I'm trying to find a replacement for, would just bring up the list if you clicked on the .m3u. You copied the .m3u's to a playlist folder that musicmatch defaulted to...no import required. Why is this so hard for others to replicate this basic function. don't make the playlist organizer do more than it needs to, just read the playlists that are there and write new .m3u's as the user creates them. If the playlists already exists, just read them...PLEASE!

Songbird is retarded about duplicates. All you have to do to create a duplicate is add it to a play list. If I've got a song in three playlists it'll show up in the library four times. Each with their own play statistics which seems ridiculous to me.