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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