Software for removing duplicate MP3s

[Entity]

Is there any good software that does this? I'm moving MP3s from a bunch of sources over to one central drive, and I'm finding that I've got a lot of duplicates in the process. Before I import all of them to iTunes, I'd like to clean it up a bit. Anything that does a good job of this?

Rob

 

[Rip the Jacker]

usually i sort by size and delete them (manually).

dno bout 100+ at once tho

 

[Barfo]

iTunes does that, just import everuthing and select show duplicate songs from edit menu, it will show songs with same title and artist, no byte for byte duplicates though, you can use another app for that.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

Originally posted by: barfo
iTunes does that, just import everuthing and select show duplicate songs from edit menu, it will show songs with same title and artist, no byte for byte duplicates though, you can use another app for that.

True. Works better if if you add the "size" column and arrange the duplicate songs by size.

 

[imported_LoKe]

+1 for iTunes doing it.

 

[UlricT]

Try musicIP mixer. It will analyze your songs and tag them as duplicate even if the ID3 tags are all messed up.

 

[techwanabe]

Is it true that if you buy and download songs from Itunes music store, they are in a format only IPODs can play?

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

Originally posted by: techwanabe
Is it true that if you buy and download songs from Itunes music store, they are in a format only IPODs can play?

Yes and no. Yes you CANNOT play them on any other MP3 player but an iPod but you can always (1) Burn it as an audio CD and reimport it as an MP3 (2) Use a program like Jhymn to remove the encryption and convert to MP3

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2

Originally posted by: techwanabe
Is it true that if you buy and download songs from Itunes music store, they are in a format only IPODs can play?

Yes and no. Yes you CANNOT play them on any other MP3 player but an iPod but you can always (1) Burn it as an audio CD and reimport it as an MP3 (2) Use a program like Jhymn to remove the encryption and convert to MP3

Thanks, it sounds like I should use another service that doesn't lock me into IPODs. My daughter has an IPOD nano but I have a Samsung player.