Can we add a duplicate file finder to Rekordbox please
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There's a problem with that ... many DJs have duplicate files in multiple locations and want to keep them because they were included as part of an album. There are already many 3rd-party tools available for going through your files to locate and manage duplicates, if you are trying to do the same for rekordbox, simply sorting by track name will at least allow you to browse and manually process them.
This is simply not the whole truth.
First of all organizing music on a per album basis is pretty outdated. DJs buy music trackwise, compilations, albums and EPs are leftovers from the nineties that lables tend to keep for nostalgic reasons or because the work was done anyway for the cd/lp-release.
Rekordbox is intended to prepare a maximum amount of music on a minimum amount of space. Reducing duplicates is one important step for this achievement. While there might be reasons to keep duplicates in the main database, we do not want to see them on our USB keys and portable harddrives. The easiest solution is to define one of the duplicates as target and the others as links to the target with only the differing meta-data left. To decide which of them will become the target, I need to listen to the quality of each title while switching through the tracks without interruption. Helpful are spectral analysis and encoder settings if present in the header.
I am sure rekorbox already calculates a lot data from the tracks that can be used to identify duplicates and judge the quality of the files. (Cutoff frequencies for the quality, mathematical representation of the beat-positions for content-comparison, etc.)
So automating or semi automating would not necessarily cause high development costs but beam rekordbox into present time, and fit the needs todays generation of DJs. By keeping the analysis in the hardware on a low level, Pioneer forces me to either abaondon most advanced features of the hardware, or to use rekordbox, with its own quite work expensive way of postprocessing the music. Actually it is so expensive, using another software to process many redundant steps is not an option for me.
Organizing all my music in a database that separates metadata from the audio content, removes redundancies, helps in judging the audio quality, helps in finding faulty files, helps in tagging, etc. that is what I really need ;)