As part of cleaning up my mp3 collection, I am going to perform two simple tasks which I never thought could be done so easily if not with the help of a freeware called The GodFather.

Description of The GodFather from the publisher’s website:

Do you own mp3 files ? How about ogg, mpc, ape, flac, aac, apl, wv, mp4, ofr, or spx files ? Do you have a lot of them ?
If yes, then you probably already know that it is easier to create a chaotic budge of files with strange names and in wrong locations than to have a clean and nice collection where every file is where it is supposed to be, with a perfect name and Tag information.
Sounds like the truth… don’t worry The GodFather is here to put order to chaos and put you in control.No more strange file names and endless search for “that song”!.Rename,update Tags,restructure files on hard disk, create/merge play lists,encode-decode with LAME/Ogg Vorbis/MpcEnc, export/import to/from file, play, use freedb.org & allmusic.com, catalog them in a library… with ease of use and perfect results every time.

As you have notice The GodFather has many advance features which you can tinker to your liking, but what i’m going to teach you is the most basic way to do it and which I think works well for most users.

1. I’m going to search for mp3 files with file names that I think untrimmed and needs to be renamed.
2. I’m going to remove duplicate mp3 files to save extra disk space.

PART 1: Renaming Files

1. Click the main tab
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2. Select [All supported formats]
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3. Go to folder
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4. Check Sub Folders and Autoscan
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5. Click the Rename tab
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6. Click Scan and wait until it finds file names that are to be renamed. Scan time depends on the number of mp3 files you have in a directory.
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7. Click Rename
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Your mp3 file names should be clean by now. :)

PART 2: Removing Duplicates

1. Click the main tab
2. Select [All supported formats]
3. Go to folder
4. Check Sub Folders and Autoscan
5. Click the Organize tab
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6. Click find duplicates
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7. Click Scan and wait until it finds duplicate files that are to be deleted. Scan time depends on the number of mp3 files you have in a directory.
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9. Select the mp3 files which you want to remove and click the remove button.

Result sample screenshot
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File formats are colored separately and deleted files will be automatically moved to the recycle bin.

I’m so happy because I freed 171 mb of disk space from 57 duplicate files. You can try this at home and let me know if it worked.