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pseconds
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Posted: Dec. 29 2004,05:57
How do I automatically find duplicate or very similar mp3 files?  I have many MP3's that either have the same file name in multiple folders or nearly identical names in the same folder.  

I'm using verion 3.5 and I didn't see anything in Help.
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Magnus Brading
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Posted: Dec. 29 2004,13:37
There is currently no explicit feature to find duplicates, no. :( The search tool and list maker tool could be used as help to manually find dupes though, through their sorted listings.

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David Faragó
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Posted: Feb. 16 2005,23:07
Too bad MP3TS can't find dupes - this is getting pretty important when I get tons of new files. Does anybody know of any good tool doing that? (Besides mp3 boss)

Magnus, couldn't you generalize the tag/rename from list tool, so it does not only handle old-filenames but also old-tagfields? Then after making a list containing <artist>;<album>;<title> of all my own mp3-files, I could use rename from list on the new files I got with file-row-format "<old artist>;<old album>;<old title> /dev/null" to remove the dupes.
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Posted: Feb. 17 2005,09:34
I'm not sure I understand this suggestion, could you please explain further?

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David Faragó
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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,13:26
Generalization of the tag/rename from list tool:
Right now mp3TS either selects the files by the filenames given in the list, or it goes through a bunch of files (in some ordering).
I thought it would be handy if mp3TS could also select files not  by their filenames but also by their ID-tags. So if you use the file-row-format "<old artist>;<old album>;<old title>;<new comment>" and have a list containing "spin doctors;pocket full of kryptonite;forty or fifty;i was here", the tool would write "i was here" in the comment-tag of every file containing "spin doctors" in the artist-tag, "pocket...." in the album-tag and "forty or fifty" in the title-tag.

So if I have a list containing <artist>;<album>;<title>;"/dev/null" for each of my mp3-files, and I get a new hdd full of mp3-files, I could use the file-row-format "<old artist>;<old album>;<old title>;<new file-name>" on the new hdd to delete the files I already have in my own collection.
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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,14:59
I think this method is quite roundabout, and would sadly practically not be understood or used by anyone. :( In that case it would be better with a pure separate dupe finder tool.

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David Faragó
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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,16:34
My name's Dave, not Nobody ;)
Why roundabout? Is there a shorter way? I thought one of the purposes of mp3ts was its genericity....
But if implementing my suggestion happens to be easy and the couple of steps to delete dupes are too complicated for users, how about a new tab for a simpler gui? <b>Would really be a cool feature!</b>

Hm, another "roundabout" to find dupes would be the ability to use lists in the filter tool ;)
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Posted: April 27 2005,15:27
A bit late,
hows it hanging Magnus,
Just djing at work and thought id browse,

duplicate files?

go here
http://www.geocities.com/hirak_99/goodies/finddups.html

Ive used it and its pretty good and best of all its free.

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Posted: April 28 2005,23:19
Nice tip Elbow, thanks. And me, I'm just fine, nice to see you around as always. :)

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