Sorting Music Files

[Barndoor32]

Since my kids got iPods for xmas, I've noticed that we have multiple copies of the same mp3 files in different folders on their hard drive.

Does anyone know of a way to consolidate all the files in one folder and then delete the duplicates? In some cases there appears to be up to 6 copies of the same song!

As always, thanks in advance. B32.

[jimmyl]

My daughter was doing the same thing. I did a search for all .mp3 files and deleted the duplicates.

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[Mouse]

Solution: Delete them all, and train them to check first before downloading a duplicate. :tooths:

[Barndoor32]

I've done the search part, but I wondered if anyone knew of a way to quickly pick out the duplicates to delete them. It seems like when they were duplicated the names changed a little bit too.

[Miss Maggie]

What we did was give them a specified time frame to clean up their own lists/folders...(only 2 daughters here), and then all remaining MP3's were being deleted. Worked surprisingly well, as they went through and actually deleted quite a few that they had lost interest in, the others were in their own folders.

[Barndoor32]

Maybe if I tell my girls it some new MSN type game, lord knows they can put in a full 8 hour shift with that.

[dawtcalm]

Google (http://www.google.ca/search?q=itunes+duplicate+finder&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)is your friend:
1. (http://www.cleansofts.com/get/275/12722/Duplicate_MP3_File_Finder.html)
2. (http://www.ashisoft.com/duplicates.htm)