Duplicate MP3's - Trying to condense a music collection.

[jeport]

I am trying to condense my MP3 collection across several PC's. I have migrated everything into one folder on my Homeseer server called MP3. Unfortunately, at one point I had used a program called Jukebox that grouped all my MP3's and placed them into individual folders. Now that I have copied all my other MP3's to this drive I have many duplicates between my main MP3 folder and the many subfolders. Is anyone aware of a program that will scan a main folder/directory and it's subfolders to look for duplicates so that I can easily weed out the doubles?

Are you able to follow me??? lol

Thanks in advance,
Jim

[Michael McSharry]

If your mp3 contain ID3 information then there are multiple utilities that will organize them for you. mcsMusic which is in the updater will process a flat file structure and rebuild it as a artist/album/track structure. In this process it should weed-out the duplicates. If, however, most of your music is ripped for older CDs then ID3 info will not be present and then it becomes more error-prone due to naming conventions of the filename.

[Jroberts]

I use Duplicate File Finder for that very thing. It actualy does a binary comparison of the files and does not rely on file name or size.

You can find it here...

http://www.funduc.com/dupfiles.htm



Jim

[jeport]

Jroberts:

That's exactly what I was looking for. I downloaded it and the program is running as I type this. It looks like it is finding everything.

Thanks so much!
Jim