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