David Timms wrote:
Konstantin Svist wrote:
> center/HTPC). Problem is, I'd like to merge the duplicate files (and
I'd suggest file management tool fslint (gui) or fdupes (command line)
for this part of the process. Both can be given a start storage path,
and then recurse through all sub folders looking for 100% duplicate
files by content (without reference to filename). This wouldn't find
identical music whose files are different because of different tags,
compression, or file format.
Can't help you with the other parts of your grand plan ;-)
DaveT.
Hrm...
I'm pretty sure I've heard of software that can compare music files on a
more fundamental level and tell me if I have duplicates in different
formats. I know for sure there's a graphics comparison program that does
this with images - I've used it once or twice :)
Either way, that's a neat functionality but not really what I'm looking
for. At this point the collection is not so huge that I can't deal with
duplicates manually. The problem right now is that I keep several
collections in one (because sync functionality is very important):
Music/user1/Beatles
Music/user2/Beatles
Music/user3/Beatles