PETITION: Show Duplicate Files In Media Explorer Like In iTu

No doubt that many of us have duplicate song files on our Zens.
It seems to me that since I can't see individual song files like I could under the old Media Explorer (before the Plays For Sure upgrade) it would be nice to see some sort of Duplicate Files searcher when the Zen is plugged in.

A possible source of your problems could be multiple tags. See My iTunes library and metadata/ID3 tags issue for some thoughts.
There is a danger that as you remove one of the redundant tags iTunes might read back the old data from another. It might pay to use my script ExportImport to backup the metadata first just in case.
If you want to make the filenames in Explorer match the tag properties then the script ConsolidateByMovingLong might help.
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