Duplicate File Removal
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Over the weekend, iTunes decided it would be a great idea to have vague instructions and prompt me to delete my 40G+ music collection. With a fancy freeware undelete program(undelete plus), ive managed to salvage about 18G of music; however, there are a lot of duplicate entries. I've tried a few "find duplicate file" programs, but none of them seem to be working correctly(they dont find mp3 files, just duplicate anything but mp3 files :mad:). Any suggestions for a good freeware program that can help me out in removing these duplicate mp3's?
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Over the weekend, iTunes decided it would be a great idea to have vague instructions and prompt me to delete my 40G+ music collection. With a fancy freeware undelete program(undelete plus), ive managed to salvage about 18G of music; however, there are a lot of duplicate entries. I've tried a few "find duplicate file" programs, but none of them seem to be working correctly(they dont find mp3 files, just duplicate anything but mp3 files :mad:). Any suggestions for a good freeware program that can help me out in removing these duplicate mp3's?
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Thats what c# was invented for, it would two minute to code up something to do that (with a little recursion).
Roger Irrelevant "he's completely hatstand"
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Thats what c# was invented for, it would two minute to code up something to do that (with a little recursion).
Roger Irrelevant "he's completely hatstand"
Ive never messed around with C# before, is there a set of API functions you would recommend for me to check out?
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Ive never messed around with C# before, is there a set of API functions you would recommend for me to check out?
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Since this didn't start out as a programming question, I'll help you (although I'm almost certain I'll be shot for this :~ ) Look up
DirectoryInfoandFileInfoinSystem.IO.Cheers, Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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Since this didn't start out as a programming question, I'll help you (although I'm almost certain I'll be shot for this :~ ) Look up
DirectoryInfoandFileInfoinSystem.IO.Cheers, Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
eh, they wont shoot you its an innocent question, and im not asking anyone to do my work, just general information that lead to a programing answer. thanks man.
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Thats what c# was invented for, it would two minute to code up something to do that (with a little recursion).
Roger Irrelevant "he's completely hatstand"
I was thinking of writing something similar myself, but there's actually a little more to it than that, if you're looking at finding duplicate MP3's... A lot of my MP3's come from ripped streams, for iPod listening later, and they are at a fairly low bitrate, with often badly formed ID3 tags. I also happen to own many of these songs, and they are obviously recorded at a much higher bitrate, with proper tag info. Usually, the files are named differently too. ie, the album version is prefixed with a track number, whereas the ripped version is not. Therefore, you can't simply scan the disk recursively looking for duplicate file names, sizes etc. You have to take into account the ID3 tags, and be somewhat intelligent about it too. For example, "09 - Civilization.mp3", "Frontline Assembly - Civilization.mp3", "Civilization.mp3" are the same song, but only the first one is recorded at a decent bitrate, and is therefore larger than the others, rendering a file-size comparison useless too. Just my 2c :)
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Since this didn't start out as a programming question, I'll help you (although I'm almost certain I'll be shot for this :~ ) Look up
DirectoryInfoandFileInfoinSystem.IO.Cheers, Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
BANG!;P
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Over the weekend, iTunes decided it would be a great idea to have vague instructions and prompt me to delete my 40G+ music collection. With a fancy freeware undelete program(undelete plus), ive managed to salvage about 18G of music; however, there are a lot of duplicate entries. I've tried a few "find duplicate file" programs, but none of them seem to be working correctly(they dont find mp3 files, just duplicate anything but mp3 files :mad:). Any suggestions for a good freeware program that can help me out in removing these duplicate mp3's?
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DiskState[^] is definitely the tool for the job, unfortunately it isn't free. I bought it years ago (I reckon about 7) and just keep on getting updates, so have no idea what it costs now (or even then).
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Over the weekend, iTunes decided it would be a great idea to have vague instructions and prompt me to delete my 40G+ music collection. With a fancy freeware undelete program(undelete plus), ive managed to salvage about 18G of music; however, there are a lot of duplicate entries. I've tried a few "find duplicate file" programs, but none of them seem to be working correctly(they dont find mp3 files, just duplicate anything but mp3 files :mad:). Any suggestions for a good freeware program that can help me out in removing these duplicate mp3's?
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I'm currently working on an iTunes maintenance application for tasks such as this. I still don't have my dupe finder functionality working 100%, however, using the iTunes SDK you can do quite a bit. If you are interested, I can send you some sample implementations which could help get started (all in C# of course).
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BANG!;P
Reload.;)
Roger Irrelevant "he's completely hatstand"