How to find and delete duplicate files have different file names in MacOS ?

I have noticed tha, I have many audio files which sounds exac same but have different file name for both.

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Posted on Nov 22, 2018 10:19 PM

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Yer_Man

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Nov 22, 2018 10:24 PM in response to Nikhil Gavade

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