Re: [SLUG] finding duplicates

From: ronan (ronan@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2008 - 05:42:13 EDT


Eben King wrote:
> If you have too many images, there is software out there that'll find
> duplicates in your collection. (I've used it; it's decent;
> unfortunately, it runs on that other OS). Is there anything similar
> for MP3s?
>
find / -iname "*.mp3" -exec id3v2 --list {} \; | grep TIT | cut -f2 -d:
| sort | uniq -d

That'll give you a list of duplicated song titles (but not the paths to
the files). That is based on the song titles being identical in the id3
data, so it might not find all duplicates (ripped using different CDDB
entries or such).

--ronan
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