Find duplicate movies in Kodi

kodi.sql

-- Find the file ~/.kodi/userdata/MyVideosXX.db
-- Open with sqlite3
-- Run the following statement:

SELECT
    m.c00,                      -- Movie name
    p.strPath,                  -- Path
    f.strFilename               -- File name
FROM movie m

JOIN movie m2                   -- Join on self to find duplicates
  ON m.c09 = m2.c09             -- Map on IMDB ID
 AND m.idMovie != m2.idMovie    -- Only if not same entry

JOIN files f                    -- Join file information
  ON f.idFile = m.idFile

JOIN path p                     -- Join path information
  ON p.idPath = f.idPath;

I tried this but got Error: no such table: movie
Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Found the problem, copy pasted the path and typed it within "quotes", instead of using the space escape sequence for spaces '\ '

As of 03/2026, database contents seem to have changed slightly: field m.c09 now stores some sort of unique ID which does not seem to be of much use when trying to identify duplicates (see https://kodi.wiki/view/Databases/MyVideos#movie).

However, relying on movie name/title + release date instead worked for me:

SELECT
    m.c00,                       -- Movie name/title
    p.strPath,                   -- Source path
    f.strFilename                -- File name
FROM movie m

JOIN movie m2                    -- Join on self to find duplicates
  ON m.c00 = m2.c00              -- Map on movie name/title ...
 AND m.premiered = m2.premiered  -- ... and movie release date
 AND m.idMovie != m2.idMovie     -- Only if not same entry

JOIN files f                     -- Join file information
  ON f.idFile = m.idFile

JOIN path p                      -- Join path information
  ON p.idPath = f.idPath

ORDER BY m.c00;                  -- Order results by movie name/title

Save the SQL statement above to file find-duplicates.sql and then run:
sqlite3 --readonly ~/.kodi/userdata/MyVideosXXX.db < find-duplicates.sql