Another Pointless Blog

There is a time when we sit for an hour or two and create a play-list of all our favorite songs to play them all the time your PC is turned on. Over the time, maybe a few days or months… You make new additions to your collection of songs and even delete the ones you don’t seem to like anymore. And its most probable that you’ll add some of the new songs to your playlist and it is possible that while adding  more songs to the playlist, you add something that is already there. Also, it is quite possible that you may not be able to remove the songs you deleted if the play list is a bit too long and you are a lazy-bum!

Winamp doesn’t notify you of duplicate entries or missing files in a playlist. You only spot it if playing a non-existent entry doesn’t work and if a song plays more than once when you are playing the playlist in shuffle OFF mode.
However, Winamp offers the option to remove duplicate entries and missing files from your playlist, which is lesser known but quite nifty.

From the playlist editor, select “Remove Missing Files from Playlist” and/or “Remove Duplicate Entries”
in the playlist menu. The keyboard shortcut to remove missing files is ALT+DELETE and to remove duplicate entries is SHIFT+DELETE. And you are done! Enjoy a clean no-repeat collection of your favorite songs

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