I recently found amarocks, seems better thatn the rest so far. I had backed up alot of my music onto extermnal drives, probably a buncch of times, multiple copies floatingar ound lots of places. So now on the playists are a lot of dupes when i rty to listen to stuff. I kinda dont want to delete the files from my disk that doesnt seem like a good idea, if I delete the wrong file, i guess I could lose the music. So can I get the songs off the playlist without deletong tthem from the hadr drive? Now I saw about to go to a file in terminal and edit that, I am not good at terminal, I often just get ;no such directory when I try that. I never did use myqsl, so that might not work good for me either. What does remove duplicates button do? That seems like a good idea, Does anyone know how that should work?

Thaknks so much in advance.

"remove duplicates" removes duplicates in the playlist, as best I can tell duplicates are determined by band & album & title not just band & title or just title

Amarok's collection won't store duplicate copies of tracks. Tracks are identified based on artist, album, track name and track number.
Remove Duplicates strips repeat appearances of any given track from the playlist. It doesn't affect the collection.

Hey that is actually acceptable. I can drag the music over to where it gets played, and it shows up with multiple copies, then just hit remove duplicates- and voila! I would just as soon not have them show up, although I guess I can see the logic of leaving them on the big list. I have like at least 5 old computers worth of music, its a total mess, I will never go through it all and organize it- no time at all- this must be a common problem, I have no idea how to solve it besides just deciding to listen to the radio instead. I have other questions, mainly how to distill the good songs I dont know into a playlist effortlessly- but I should slog through the notes first, and fool with this thing some more first.

You might want to have a look at our handbook: http://userbase.kde.org/Amarok/Manual

FWIW, when you ask questions, could you please specify the Amarok and KDE versions you are using?

If your tracks are well named, Amarok has a Organize Collection option that you might like. If they are *not* well named, you might try using Picard. It has lots of tools and options for recognizing and tagging unorganized tracks.

Good luck!