tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post112508341278141321..comments2024-01-28T00:20:40.933-08:00Comments on Agoraphilia: In Case You're Wondering...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1125267796840177272005-08-28T15:23:00.000-07:002005-08-28T15:23:00.000-07:00I tried that, but nothing turned up. So I had to ...I tried that, but nothing turned up. So I had to come up with something else. Here's how I eventually found the duplicates, for anyone who's as anal retentive as I am:<BR/><BR/>In the iPod song list, I put all songs in alphabetical order. The first dupe I found just by scanning the list visually (it was "Jungle Boogie," which appeared on a Pure Funk album and the Pulp Fiction soundtrack). But the second I didn't see. <BR/><BR/>So I created an empty playlist called "Counter" in iTunes and copied it to the iPod. Then I copied all songs starting with 'A' in the iTunes library to the iTunes Counter playlist, and all songs starting with 'A' in the iPod song list to the iPod Counter playlist. Then I compared the song totals, and it turned out the iPod Counter's total was 1 higher than the iTunes Counter. By deleting equivalent alphabetical chunks from both playlists, I zeroed in on the dupe ("Angels of the Silences" by Counting Crows, which appeared on both their album Recovering the Satellites and a compilation album that came free with the first issue of Maxim magazine). <BR/><BR/>Of course, I was lucky the dupe appeared in the A's. But really, the A's were just a test of the counter-playlist method. If I hadn't found the dupe in the A's, I planned to use a binary method -- looking at A-M, then A-F (or G-Z), then A-C (or D-F), etc. This would have located the correct starting letter in a maximum of 5 comparisons.Glen Whitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425907466575991113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1125118315255513572005-08-26T21:51:00.000-07:002005-08-26T21:51:00.000-07:00Duplicate songs tend to have something added to th...Duplicate songs tend to have something added to their filenames to make them unique--typically a trailing " 1". Is it easy in Windows to search for files ending in " 1.mp3"? Alternatively, you could probably whip something up with Unix tools quite easily if you have CygWin installed. (I'm a Mac user, so I'd just use one of the AppleScripts that have been designed to weed out duplicates.)Aaron Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05334056755840192313noreply@blogger.com