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ZAFluffyBunny

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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?
 
ZAFluffyBunny said:
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?
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NomNom said:
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
 
arneduppi said:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ or http://linux.die.net/man/1/fdupes.
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Ta, those were the two I was going to suggest. FSlint gives you a GUI while fdupes is CLI.


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