removing duplicate MP3s

[David Fox]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, admin2<admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am looking for an automated application that can look at MP3s and
> remove the duplicate file names that could spread across multiple
> directories.  Is there such an animal?

Not sure. fdupes has been mentioned, but to really be effective said
tool would have to be able to look at the mp3 metadata and derive the
song that way, and keep track of what it finds in a buffer.

For instance, you might have:

01-ReallyCoolSong.mp3

and

ReallyCoolSong.mp3

>From a filesystem standpoint those two files are different, but they
could possibly be the same song from the same ReallyCoolAlbum (tm).
They might even be encoded at different bit rates, so going by file
sizes won't be accurate. But the tags metadata would reveal the song
title and show one of the files as a duplicate of the other.

-- 
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