I use Media Monkey for this. Its fuzzy logic feature is neat in that it can find duplicate files that are not named the same.
I use the file name and move function to move all the music to the central server. My Linux based the Slimserver. I have a dedicated USB drive as a backup drive that I take weekly backups of the music files just in case. I have been collecting MP3 files for almost 10 years now and I don't want to loose any of them. OffBeatMammal;252544 Wrote: > Not really a Slim question, but smart folks here have probably hit the > issue before. > > I have music collected over the years on a couple of PCs and an > external hard drive. My wife has some on her PC. > > We're combining everything onto a central Windows Home Server and are > looking for a way to copy everything across but weed out duplicates > (and ideally tidy up file structures, tags etc as we go) > > Don't mind if it doesn't move DRM'd music (I have about 20 iTunes > tracks from the recent "Song of the Day" promo but that's it for DRM) > though it would be nice if it can play them via the SB3 to move them > (or just rip out the infection and copy them!) > > I'm guessing it'll need to be some sort of client app. Would be really > neat if it can handle ripping new CDs to the WHS archive automatically > > Once we've got it sorted out then we can stop storing music locally on > the PCs and just point the various iTunes/WMP instances to the server > and only sync music to the laptops/phones/iPod/Zune when we're > travelling -- rdcole ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rdcole's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3573 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41519 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
