find all cover versions of songs
Is there a way to find all the cover songs in my library.? I have songs with many versions by the same artist due to live albums. I need to find songs with the same name but a different artist.
Windows, Windows 6
Is there a way to find all the cover songs in my library.? I have songs with many versions by the same artist due to live albums. I need to find songs with the same name but a different artist.
Windows, Windows 6
The method I use is to look in the Songs View and arrange the songs alphabetically, by title.
Walrus,
If you are handy with Excel, you can take the sorted results of the fiend's method and past them into a spreadsheet. Use the "UNIQUE" function with "exactly once" set to FALSE to narrow down to the ones that occur multiple times.
You will still have to manually deal with false positives (e.g., the title matches but it is not actually a cover) and false negatives (it really is a cover but under a different title, different language, etc.). Also you will have to use your own judgment about what exactly constitutes a cover. There have been court cases about that.
As ed2345 has stated, you will still have to keep your eye on what any automated system is doing, in order to ensure you don't lose things that you want, but the automated system decided that you don't.
Thanks for your response. My other issue would be i have over 40,000 songs in my library. I was hoping for a more automated way to do it.
Been there. Lol
find all cover versions of songs