I have Rhythmbox 2.97 on 32bit Ubuntu 12.10.
I have a large number of duplicate music entries that don't show up in my music folder.
I really would like to know if there's any plugin or any means to get rid of them.
It's happened to me a few times...
The easy way to solve this issue is:
.local/share/rhythmbox
The rhythmdb.xml file contains the music library info for Rhythmbox, by deleting it, you'll be forcing rhythmbox to re-check the library, thus getting rid of the repeated entries.
Some blogger wrote a GUI tool which automatically removes the duplicate entries from the rhythmbox database (without touching the actual files):
sudo apt-get install python-tk
wget -P /tmp blog.tappir.com/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
chmod +x /tmp/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
python /tmp/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
Reference: http://blog.tappir.com/?p=13
blog.tappir.com/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
doesn't download (it's down at time of commenting), the file is also available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrissunny94/raspberry_pi/master/rhythmboxRemoveDuplicates.py
Apr 2, 2017 at 21:36