Help with my Music Collection Please? [Duplicates]

[The Real Dave]

I realise things are going mad here with the release of 10.04.

That said, I'd like some help with my Music Collection.

The trouble is that after getting some tunes off a mate, and dropping them into my Music folder, selecting for alike files to be overwritten, I found that I have a lot of copies of tracks.

The thing is that I have 3 different audio codec versions of just about every song I have, in the region of 4000 songs.

FDupes won't do the job, because the files are essentially different.

What I need is a bash script, or python, or just a program that will find doubles and delete them.

But only if they are duplicates, not just wiping one file format from my collection like. Yes I know, it's awkward, but I'm hoping that someone knows a quicker way then manually deleting them.

Cheers guys.

[The Real Dave]

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[The Real Dave]

Bumping Any suggestions anyone?

[meho_r]

I remember only Songbird had some kind of duplicate find mechanism. Not sure for other players available. You may try with FSlint, but also check this out.

[tgalati4]

I presume you did a forum search for music duplicates. There are a few threads with scripts for searching and printing out such lists.

There are also plug-ins available in most of the big music players: banshee, rhythmbox, amarok, etc that have duplicate hunters.

Easytag can be used and it allows you to directly delete or rename files.

Another technique:

Use a different player for each type of musical genre. For instance, let's say I want to cull all the jazz tracks from my 4000 track mess.

Use the Listen player and selectively import artists/tracks that you know are jazz. Fix the ID3 tags using easytag or with the Listen ID3 editor. Delete duplicates as you go.

Then use songbird for the Rock tracks and do the same thing.

Then use rhythmbox to selectively import the death metal tracks.

Once you have gone through a few genres you can export the libraries to a clean partition and you will have a cleaned-up music library.

There are perhaps a dozen music players to use.

[The Real Dave]

Thanks for ye're responses guys. That Rythmbox plugin looks like it'll do the trick I'll let ye know how I get on.

Thanks again.