If you don't have a good mp3 duplicate finder then chances are you are wasting principal space on your hard drive. Since the music downloading boom Napster created yearsago duplicate mp3 files have come to be a real problem. If you know much about computers then you'll know that hard drives are the bottleneck of computer speed. If you have unnecessary music taking up space your computer doing will suffer because of it.

iTunes does have a built in mp3 duplicate finder, but it is primitive to say the least. For iTunes to uncover your duplicates they have to be spelled exactly the same. And for most of us, our libraries are so unorganized and mismanaged that strict spelling is rare. But that is where an self-acting duplicate mp3 finder comes into play!

There is software available that can scan your music files/folders and recognize duplicate mp3 files for you. The best part being it is totally hands free, after you click the start button that is. Misspelled songs are no match for this application either. It does not decide the song based on the Id3 tag info, it precisely takes an acoustic fingerprint and compares it with the songs in its gigantic online database. It then gives you the selection to delete the duplicate mp3s or mark them in iTunes so you can do it yourself; if you're worried about deleting something you need or want.

Along with being able to find and remove duplicate mp3s this some programs can also:

• Fix misspelled songs
• Complete missing or incorrect Id3 tags
• Find album artwork
• Organize genres
• And more...