removing duplicate MP3s

[Charlie Brune]

admin2 wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am looking for an automated application that can look at MP3s and 
> remove the duplicate file names that could spread across multiple 
> directories.  Is there such an animal?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Noah
>
>   
Are you really looking just to delete files that have the same file name
or do you really want to delete files that have exactly the same content?

For example, I had the problem where a picture I took with my digital
camera was saved in one directory as "DSC011823.JPG" and in another
directory as "Charlie_Has_A_New_Hat.JPG".

I wanted to delete duplicates of this nature and I used "fdupes" to do
it. Fdupes looks at the contents of the files, NOT the filenames.
Perfect for me.

I did:

fdupes -r mypictures/

I ended up piping the results of this command into a file and editing it
to create a bash script to delete files I didn't want.

HTH,
Charlie
St. Louis, Missouri