Not exactly car audio, but you guys are usualy into audio above and beyond the car and know your ****. And beyond that i know 90% of you at least get your music the same ways i do lol. So heres my problem:

Right now there are exactly 173,409 mp3's on my hard drive. Of those i estimate 10-15k (at most) are duplicates. I'm trying to find a program that will search specific folders/locations for filenames that are the same or close to help me weed them out.

Anyone heard of anything like this? Obviously its insane to try and do it all by hand, i cant imagine....

 

I hope you have those 173k songs backed up somewhere. I'd hate to loose that hard drive.

 

yea multiple backups. I lost 110k once never again

 

i doubt theres a program that searches for something like that. how tf big is that hard drive? jeebus. It would have to be close to a Terrabyte. you're probabbly better off searching in the folder for the name of the song... how many duplicates do you have?

 

Its two of them (terrabyte), actually =] One still needs to get some use, im working on that hehe

Estimated 10-15k. I'll be here for the next decade if i do it myself.

 

Just leave'em

 

thats what i have been doing for a longtime, but they are annoying me lol

 

http://duplicate.qarchive.org/downloads.html

http://noclone.net/Duplicate_Mp3.asp

Excluding the programs recommended above I THINK if you tried copying them to another source it will prompt you to replace the duplicate files. Select "yes to all" and see what happens. The entries would need to be exact for this to work. Good Luck.

 

see, thats exactly what i was thinking, but the only problem there is it will probably only recognize it as a problem (duplicate files) if the names are EXACTLY the same, letter for letter.. and im guessing in scuba's folders, their names are very slightly different, correct? but its the same song. worth a shot anyway.

if they are the exactly the same, then it might work. what also would work is if you moved ALL of the songs into 1 uber-folder, 1 folder at a time - then it would prompt you to replace the duplicate files and you could again click 'yes to all'. but then you'd have to sort through them again when you were finished, which kind of defeats the purpose..

did that make sense?

 

no clone might be perfect. Will check them out and report back, thnx =]

 

exactly right. BUT in using that program i found one that findes dupes even if the names arent exactly the same, and works VERY well. Just have to find a full version of it floating around.

http://www.efsoftware.com/d3/e.htm