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DBALKUNJR
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Posted: April 13 2004,17:35
I have all my music set up like this:
<Artist><\><Album><\><Artist>-<Album>-<TrackNr>-<Title>-<Genre>-<Year&g
t;.mp3

I found a bunch of duplicates that have different naming strings and I am not totally sure what bitrate they are compared to my nicely formatted files of which I know are EAC/Lame encoded.  I want to make room on my drives by getting rid of the files that are of lower bitrate and if they are exact duplicates.  I would like to get all of my MP3's into one large directory called "All_MP3".  From that directory I can sort by filename and then delete all duplicates and fix any files that are not set with the sheme <Artist>-<Album>-<TrackNr>-<Title>-<Genre>-<Year>.mp3.  Then I can use MP3TS and get them back into the directory structure I want.

With that being said, the question is how can I move a large amount of files in separate directories over to one directory with out a lot of manual cut & paste?  Will MP3TS do this?
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Magnus Brading
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Posted: April 13 2004,21:21
Sure, simply use the absolute path mode (please read more about it in the help file).

An example of such a template would be to use the following in the auto rename tool:

c:\big_directory_with_all_mp3s<\><OldFileName>

Start it from the root dir of your mp3 collection, and remember to use the "Include subdirs" option. Also note that it will be much faster if the big target directory is on the same drive as the source mp3 collection.

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