MP3 Mayhem

[ZAFluffyBunny]

I have a relatively large legal mp3 collection, about 25gb... Back in the day (about 5 years ago( I used iTunes to rip my entire CD collection... Now my problem is what iTunes did with that music after the fact.

Now that I have a Linux box I imported all the MP3s into Banshee. I always new that somehow iTunes duplicated some songs, but I had no idea the problem was so bad. Some albums have been duplicated 7 times.

Is there any software I can use to clean up this mess?

 

[NomNom]

http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Duplicate-File-Finder/3000-2248_4-10964299.html

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[BigAl-sa]

I have a relatively large legal mp3 collection, about 25gb... Back in the day (about 5 years ago( I used iTunes to rip my entire CD collection... Now my problem is what iTunes did with that music after the fact.

Now that I have a Linux box I imported all the MP3s into Banshee. I always new that somehow iTunes duplicated some songs, but I had no idea the problem was so bad. Some albums have been duplicated 7 times.

Is there any software I can use to clean up this mess?

http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Duplicate-File-Finder/3000-2248_4-10964299.html

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Operating system: Windows XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7

 

[ponder]

Is there any software I can use to clean up this mess?

Yes. Currently booted into windows but when I reboot I will have a look to see what it's called.

 

[backstreetboy]

http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ or http://linux.die.net/man/1/fdupes. That is if the file names is identical. If itunes changed the file names then I have no idea. Lol

 

[ponder]

http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ or http://linux.die.net/man/1/fdupes.

Ta, those were the two I was going to suggest. FSlint gives you a GUI while fdupes is CLI.

That is if the file names is identical. If itunes changed the file names then I have no idea. Lol

No, file names don't have to match. The software can ignore names and generate CRCs based on file content and then lists all files with the same CRC values I did just this with FSlint about 3 weeks ago to find duplicate crap across 2x 500GB drives.

 

[ZAFluffyBunny]

Groovy Thanks. I'll clean up all that junk tonight

 

[MyWorld]

I have about 10k photos I'll have to sort through this vacation.