
pnolans
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Mar 6, 2007, 6:20 AM
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find dupes and move them to a dupe folder/directory
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In the last couple of years, I've made a project of ripping all of my cd collection to hard drive, so that they could be consumed by iTunes. In fact, I used iTunes to do it. So, here's the problem, being disorganized and forgetful, I've got a number of dupes. The sheer volume of my cd's precludes doing a merge manually. The iTunes directory structure is: Artist Album Song iTunes looks up the album on CDDB when you load it. Sometimes the entry in CDDB is not quite correct, so you might have a folder for Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band I don't really think that's THAT much of a problem. Usually an album is not in both places. Also, for example, I may have 8 different versions of "Let it Rain" by Clapton, but they're not really dupes; they're just different versions of the same song. Plus, I'll have a version of "After Midnight" by both him and the author, JJ Cale. According to iTunes, I have thousands of dupes. Some are real dupes and as I mentioned, some are not. I'm thinking I'm going to need copy each mp3 to a flat folder structure, make the file name something like {SONG}{ARTIST}{ALBUM}.MP3 Ok... the dumbass question: Anyone have/know of some code that does this? Am I going to be writing this from scratch? This is my first foray into a Perl forum, so if I've violated some rule, please be gentle. I cry easily. Thanks in advance, WanderinPat
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