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recommend me a free duplicate mp3 finder...

  • 14-06-2010 10:09pm
    #1
    Elevator
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    i am staying away from from having apples itunes from handling my mp3s due to their referencing system so can anybody please direct me to a free program to sort out any duplicate tracks i have on my external?

    tia


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  • #2
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    Unless you want to pay the best and easiest way is to dump them all into itunes and use their built in duplicate finder and an applescript and then delete all the duplicate tracks and delete from source and your done.


  • #3
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,902 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    You can actually set iTunes to not sort your library.


  • #4
    Elevator
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    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    You can actually set iTunes to not sort your library.

    ya but it still adds to the hard drive unnecessarily? i want to keep the hd as clean as possible and to honest i use ableton for djing so if there's any program for my media needs it is ableton,

    i just dont like the whole itunes concept


  • #5
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    Ok, fine.


    Go through your duplicates at your next set - then use itunes, or you could skip the first step and just use itunes.


  • #6
    was.deevey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭was.deevey


    "Tidy up" or "Duper" should work for ya if you aren't using itunes and actually work on ANY dupe files.

    idupe is the one for those who are using Itunes
    as itunes will SHOW duplicates but not remove them.

    My last scan had over 1200 duplicates, thats alot of manual removing !

    BTW I use Ableton and Traktor, and itunes together just fine, just disable import to library on load and specify the itunes folder, only additional file is the xml playlist ... each to their own though.

    Personally I like being able to drag and drop direct into Ableton from itunes.


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