John
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Has there been some software written that will do this all automatically yet, preferably without completely butchering it.
Got probably a terabyte of music (lots of it duplicated) mostly mp3. I don't want anything fancy. Just want the duplicates binned and it all organised in nice artist - album folders, just the usual.
I've spent hours going through some of it before but got very fed up and it's sat for years in a mess.
Seen http://beets.radbox.org/ Linux isn't my normal choice of OS but I could point a linux box at the collection if that would definitely work.
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Balling
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Sounds like something you could fairly easily do with iTunes.
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Balling
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Just set the folder to your desired destination and import everything.
Might need to spend some time organising some things manually in iTunes, depending on the ID3 tags of the original files.
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John
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Tried the iTunes thing years ago and lost lots of music. Never trusted KT since.
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Balling
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Fair enough, can't say I've ever used iTunes under Windows, but using the "copy files" option I can't see how your original files would be in any danger.
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Balling
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Worth noting that iTunes is vastly different these days than it was years ago. At least on Mac.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Tried the iTunes thing years ago and lost lots of music. Never trusted KT since.
Likewise, iTunes (was 11) ran riot through my collection miss-tagging a lot of it and randomly throwing tracks around directories. It's probably fine if you're purchasing through iTunes but otherwise i wouldn't trust it with a barge pole.
Since spending about a week putting it right, i've stuck with doing it manually using MP3Tag. Beets does look interesting but i'm not sure my tagging OCD will allow it 
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Welsh Dan
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I'd say go with iTunes too. Leave the copy option on, and if it doesn't do it how you like, you still have the originals in their original folder. I'm pretty OCD about my music too, and I'm more than happy with the way that iTunes organises it.
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John
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Tried a musicbrainz thing which continually crashed so went against my better judgement and tried itunes. It's 11k out of 49k and has already put compilations into individual folders, which is exactly what it done 5 years ago or whenever I tried.
Looks like it's just as shit as it always was.
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Balling
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Mine has a folder called "Compilations" with subfolders by album.
Like I said, possibly you need to edit some things manually in iTunes, depending on the original files ID3 tags.
Try selecting all songs in a compilation and choose "Get info".
Ensure "Album" is filled out. If it's empty, they don't have the same album name, so edit this.
Then go to the Options tab and make sure "Part of a compilation" is set to "Yes".
Pretty sure this will sort it for you.
[Edited on 23-03-2014 by Balling]
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Welsh Dan
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Balling beat me to it. As long as the album name is the same and the drop down box says yes to compilation, they'll all be in the same folder. I'd suggest adding smaller numbers of songs at the same time, rather than hundreds/thousands of songs in one go.
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