Wow what great responses. I got a perl script a one line shell script and using qsort (new to me) and a few apps.
Even more than I even hoped for. Thanks I will try them out and see which glove fits the best tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who supplied a solution Aaron On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 08:04, Aaron wrote: > HI all, > > I have set of mp3's that I have been working with over the last few > years. They have been backed up, renamed moved to different directories. > > most of them are not tagged. > after a few crashes/loss of a hard disk etc. I am now trying to restore > my work. > I have a full partition with them in it but it is obvious most of them > are there multiple times with different non discriptive names..ouch:( > > > Is there a way I can searh the mp3 to find which are the same/different > using the actual mp3 binary data?? > > any way I can avoid listening to hundreds of files would be most > appreciated. > > any suggestions? > > Thanks > Aaron >
