Duplicate Design function to find and display duplicate videos

[gejianya 4]

When I have thousands of movies, the issue of duplicate content arises, and some duplicates might not be in the same drive or folder. Currently, I handle this by searching for actors and navigating to their detailed page to display all the movies they've starred in. This allows me to easily spot movies that have been downloaded multiple times. Then, I manually compare the size and quality of the movies, deleting the one with poorer quality. To be honest, this method is extremely inefficient, especially when I don't know which movies are duplicates. Therefore, it's not feasible to search for movie names to find duplicates.

For users managing local content with Emby, the number of movies in their hands is often over a thousand, some may have tens of thousands, and all these movies have corresponding scraping folders and files in their local storage. This makes it less convenient to use third-party tools to find duplicate content, as Emby itself has a comprehensive understanding of all the movies. Through the info file, by comparing the titles, it's easy to identify which movies are duplicates. What Emby needs to do is provide a button and a page to display all the duplicate movies, allowing users to decide for themselves whether to delete or keep them.

有没有想过设计查重功能？

当我有几千部电影时，就会遇到重复内容的问题，而且部分重复内容可能不在同一个盘符或者同一个文件夹，目前的处理方法是我会通过搜索演员并进入该演员的详情页来展示他拍过的所有电影，然后就可以很直观的看到有一些重复下载的电影，然后手动去对比电影的体积和质量，然后删除质量较差的那一部，说实话，这样的操作效率极其低下，特别是自己不知道哪些电影时重复的，所以不可能通过搜索电影名字的方式来查找重复内容。

对于使用emby来管理本地内容的用户来说，手里的影片几乎都是成功超过上千部的，有人可能有上万部影片，同时这些影片在本地都有对应的刮削文件夹和刮削文件，这样通过使用第三方查找重复内容的工具来说，就显得不那么方便了，而emby本身就对所有影片了如指掌，通过info文件，对比标题，就可以很容易知道哪些影片是重复的，而emby要做的就是提供一个按钮和一个页面，来展示出这些所有重复影片就可以，然后让用户自己去决定是否删除，是否保留即可。

[Luke 38803]

Hi, yes this has come up before and is possible for future updates. Thanks for the feedback.

[MindBullet 67]

Definitely +1'ing this.

As OP says there's people with thousands of even ten thousands of items. I'm not a dev, but I believe it shouldn't be too hard to implement a single duplicate check per library type button. It's very hard to find duplicates (considering larger libraries) without it or in a convenient way.

Would love to see this happen at some point. And cheers to the dev team! I'm a Plex lifetime pass subscriber and I'm in the Media Server game for ~10 years now, but at some point I always come back to Emby, as it's just the better media server platform, period. 

This time I'm gonna stay for the rest of my ride

[GrimReaper 3789]

Hi, there's already an open request for this or something functionally equivalent. Please join in and contribute to the existing discussion at: