One of the easier ways to cull duplicates off your hard drive is use your songbook maker while having the edit function up. Takes a while. Me I have culled a lot out of my shows, after all Christmas comes once a year and I did not need 7 copies of White Christmas - Bing Crosby. I had 9 copies of Me & Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin. 4 of them were CB, I still have 8,582 songs on my home pc where I have been culling. Taking out all of my copies of Kate Smith and a lot of other 40s stuff ect that no one sings. I still have a few dupes but they are SC and CB or THM. Figuring I started with 14,800 thats 6,300+ songs that were dupes or not needed. So there is a lot one can do. If space is a premium. On my laptops I keep dupes way down. Figure if someone asks for something I've culled it will be back the next show. Example one lady wants Dark Lady - Cher DK version I culled it and now it's back.
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Take care and have fun. Swany
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