# Just duplicate find-and-eliminate from chroma (not tags or folders)

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/just-duplicate-find-and-eliminate-from-chroma-not-tags-or-folders/1358>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/just-duplicate-find-and-eliminate-from-chroma-not-tags-or-folders/1358 "2020-06-26T21:00:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![salamanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@salamanders](https://discourse.beets.io/u/salamanders)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/just-duplicate-find-and-eliminate-from-chroma-not-tags-or-folders/1358/1 "2020-06-26T21:00:58Z")

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I’ve got a magled library, so my tags are at best kinda-right, at worst completely wrong. The worst is that Picard sometimes thought two songs were the same, so now I’ve got /Artist1/Album1/song(1).mp3 that has the **exact same tags** as /Artist1/Album1/song.mp3 - _but it is an entirely different song._

I dislike that. Mostly because I can’t use DupeGuru to go deleting song(1).mp3.

Is there a way to point beets at a (large, saved off of Google Music) folder and say “you know those tags and folders? **Ya, they are crap. Ignore them.**  
Can you find me all identical songs based purely on acoustic fingerprints?  
Yes? Wonderful! Please toss out the lower bitrate one.”

I know this will create gaps - if /Artist/Single/song.mp3 is the same as /Artist/BestOf/othersong.mp3, BestOf might suddenly be missing a song. I’m ok with that. (Well, I’d prefer to keep the song that is part of the larger album, but that is getting nit-picky)

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/just-duplicate-find-and-eliminate-from-chroma-not-tags-or-folders/1358/2 "2020-06-27T00:53:14Z")

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Hi! There’s no built-in mode that does exactly all of those things in one fell swoop. However, fingerprinting does have quite a bit of weight, so just doing a normal import of the files with bad tags might do pretty well. It’s worth a shot, at least?

In a second pass, you might consider using the `duplicates` plugin to find and remove duplicates.

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**Author:** ![salamanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@salamanders](https://discourse.beets.io/u/salamanders)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/just-duplicate-find-and-eliminate-from-chroma-not-tags-or-folders/1358/3 "2020-07-01T17:28:40Z")

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I will try that, thank you!