Find duplicate music files in different formats

[ZootHornRollo]

Hi,

I have let my music collection get into a bit of a mess.

I have a large collection of FLAC files which also have an MP3 duplicate for syncing with a sn MP3 player.

I now wish to remove these duplicates.

Any idea how to go about it without going into each folder indiviually?

i can't simply search for .mp3 and delete as there are some albums i only have MP3 copies of.

Thanks,

[Vaphell]

what do you consider a duplicate? is it about exactly the same naming convention of directory/files? tags?

[ZootHornRollo]

hi,

Yes, files are same name, in the same directory. Only difference being file extention .flac/.mp3

[prodigy_]

#!/bin/bash

# replace /path/to/folder with actual path and folder name
find /path/to/folder -type f -iname '*.flac' -print0 | \
	while read -r -d $'\0' full_path; do
		rm "${full_path%.*}.[mM][pP]3" 2>/dev/null
	done

[papibe]

Hi ZootHornRollo.

This code create a report of all duplicates filenames with different extensions:

#!/bin/bash

MUSICDIR="/path/to/music"

# For each file look for files with the same name (different extension).
while read -d $'\0' -r file; do

        # Initializations.
        count=0
        echo "$file"

        # Register each copy
        while read -d $'\0' -r copy; do
                count=$(($count+1))
                echo -e "    $count $copy"
        done < <(find "$MUSICDIR" -type f \( -regex .\*/"$file"\\.[^.]\* -or -name "$file" \) -print0)

done < <(find "$MUSICDIR" -type f -not -name .\* -exec bash -c 'b="${1##*/}"; printf "%s\0" "${b%.*}"' _ '{}' \; | sort -z | uniq -zd)

Regards.

[CaptainMark]

I don't know about most other media players but banshee will automatically detect that my old ipod only accepts mp3's and as it syncs it will encode my songs to mp3 for the ipod and discard the copy when finished, so i can sync my .ogg library to my ipod and not have to duplicate my library in a different format

[ZootHornRollo]

guys, can't thank you enough! That is perfick!

Sorry its taken so long to get around to running it.

THanks again!

[ZootHornRollo]

I don't know about most other media players but banshee will automatically detect that my old ipod only accepts mp3's and as it syncs it will encode my songs to mp3 for the ipod and discard the copy when finished, so i can sync my .ogg library to my ipod and not have to duplicate my library in a different format

windows phone devices are not recognised as media players but as storage devices, unfortunately.