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fdupes is your friend in cases like these — it finds duplicate files fast. As usual, the CLI tools are much better at solving problems than a terrible GUI like
by labster 10y ago
fdupes is your friend in cases like these — it finds duplicate files fast. As usual, the CLI tools are much better at solving problems than a terrible GUI like iTunes.
- majewsky 10y agoYou don't even need a separate tool for that: find -type f -name \*.mp3 -exec md5sum {} + \ | uniq -dDw 32
- dangravell 10y agoNot all music files are MP3s. When people mean duplicates, they normally mean duplicate songs, not duplicate files (audio + metadata + headers).
- knodi123 10y agoThe problem isn't duplicate files, it's that iTunes has an internal list of songs, and it allows the same file to appear in the list twice. I can manage a directory of files, I just can't manage iTunes' indexing of them. I understand why you would have assumed this was a file issue, though, because the real problem is the most idiotically stupid thing ever.
- Raphmedia 10y agoIsn't the library simply a big .xml file? I wonder if you could parse it yourself to get rid of the duplicate. I would try but I have a 20k+ songs itunes library and it takes hours to reindex whenever I move anything...
- coredog64 10y agoWouldn't the play count metadata embedded in the file lead to different md5sums?