Music sorting software

[Galdorf]

I have a client that is a dj and has an enormous music library on computer she has many duplicates and i am trying to find some sort of software that sorts music into categories and removes duplicates ect.
The software can be paid but must be easy to use any ideas there is so much out there not necessarily a player but more of a sorting organizing program.

 

[altrenda]

I have had good luck wih media monkey. Straight forward, easy to use.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

 

[Frick]

+1 for mediamonkey. It has a community with many different custom queries and sorting strings you can use. It also does not get bogged down on large music libraries like iTunes does.

 

[atlanticjim]

DoubleKiller is an excellent little proggy for finding duplicates. It has enough options to make it much more a techs tool than an endusers tool.

 

[ZenTree]

+2 for media monkey. Very easy to use.

 

[mraikes]

DoubleKiller is an excellent little proggy for finding duplicates. It has enough options to make it much more a techs tool than an endusers tool.

I'd never heard of DoubleKiller, but it just became one of my favorite tools. The options for both searching and what to do with duplicates after they're found are great.

http://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/doublekiller/

 

[W@lly]

You can also check out easyduplicate finder from http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/

 

[Asrial]

I had a customer that had a massive music collection with a tremendous amount of duplicates.

I resolved 99% of the duplicates using a multiple program process.

The tools were: iTunes, Media Monkey with a custom script some guy made, and DoubleKiller.

I also want to add Duplicate File Finder to the list of software I've found useful.

So iTunes...

iTunes has an option that lets you see duplicates. You can also hold the SHIFT key as you click the menu and it changes the option to something more specific with duplicates. I don't have iTunes installed so I can't tell you anything more than that, just that iTunes has a method to find duplicates. This is probably the easiest solution for a SMALL library.

The next in the list was DoubleKiller (http://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/doublekiller/). Straight forward program. Finds duplicate files and lets you delete them. Duplicate File Finder (http://www.ashisoft.com/) may be in the same category as DoubleKiller. I may have stumbled across it later, I don't remember. I have a lot of tools so I may be doubled up on some. I like DFF because the latest version seems completely free for basic use. I was using it the other day to weed out duplicate picture files.

Finally, we bring out the big guns...

Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) is a media playback program ala Winamp. The power of it is that you can create script based programs.

The script I used is AdvancedDuplicateFindFix.3.7.4.mmip (http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13000&sid=bb450d88c5b8d1316537ead66e1fe6e3 -- it's at the bottom of the first post; the first post has the instructions). This really nuked a lot of the duplicates because majority of them were iTunes converting an existing file into mp4 format and so this changes the size/crc/name/etc. I believe the power of this script is that it can check ID tags and such.

Hope this helps!

At the very least.. these programs should be in every technicians tools folder. They may only be used once in a while, but they're surely very handy to have.

 

[pcmac]

Dupin Lite for Mac

I installed & tried easyduplicate finder ,it missed many dupes iTunes found

This is not perfect, it misses some also,
for Mac only
Dupin Lite for Mac ,in Apple store