[linux-audio-dev] mp3 mess help

[Frank NEUMANN]

Hi list,
Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen at chello.se> wrote:

[..]
> > 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??
> > 
> 
> Short version:
> 
>    1) Sort them (by binary content.)
> 
>    2) Delete duplicates.
> 
>    3) ...
> 
>    4) Profit! :)
> 
> 
> I would probably only keep the path to the mp3 in the sorted structure,
> and then open (and close) them for comparison as needed. 
> 
> 'man qsort' is your friend. 

My suggestion would be like this (if we are really talking about byte-by-byte
identical files):

find <path_to_mp3_directory> -iname "*.mp3" -exec md5sum {} \; | sort >log.txt

This will give you a logfile, "log.txt" containing all files, sorted by md5
checksum, _including_ duplicates. Whenever you see two identical md5 sums
following each other, you have a duplicate. 

There are perhaps more geeky ways to use awk etc now to actually print out
the names of the duplicates, but others will have to continue from here.

Greetings,
Frank