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-Brading Software Message Board +--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports +---Topic: Finding Dupes started by pseconds Posted by: pseconds on 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. Posted by: Magnus Brading on Dec. 29 2004,13:37 There is currently no explicit feature to find duplicates, no. ![]() Posted by: David Faragó on 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. Posted by: Magnus Brading on Feb. 17 2005,09:34 I'm not sure I understand this suggestion, could you please explain further? Posted by: David Faragó on 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. Posted by: Magnus Brading on Feb. 18 2005,14:59 I think this method is quite roundabout, and would sadly practically not be understood or used by anyone. ![]() Posted by: David Faragó on 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 ![]() Posted by: Elbow on 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. Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 28 2005,23:19 Nice tip Elbow, thanks. And me, I'm just fine, nice to see you around as always. ![]() end |