How to tidy up messy music

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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The mrs has hundreds of mp3, m4a files scattered all over a multitude of folders on her mac. There are up to 5 duplicates of some of these and the thing is just a royal mess.

Is there any app I can use to look for all the music files, sort it and get rid of duplicates?

Thanks
 
Personally, I'd delete it all from iTunes but don't add to trash, then create on folder on desktop and add all the music from the various folders (including any in the iTunes folder), then in preferences make sure it is ticked to Add to iTunes Music Folder and to sort the music. Then add to iTunes the new music folder you created, once done you can then delete that folder.

I'd then look at TuneUp for sorting the music, it can also scan for dupes too and sort album covers. It does cost and can be mega temperamental but it does it, eventually.
 
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The problem is that it's almost impossible to work out where all the files are... they are all over the place! Some of the files are single mp3s and others are album folders so it is terribly messy.

Will give it a try but it would be nice if a tool could do all the searching too.
 
I would just get yourself a new Mrs instead!

I wouldn't be able to cope with that haha!

As for an app, Im not sure. I don't mind sorting out music and making it all nice though, I find it quite therapeutic. Maybe just give it a go, start sorting, it will be done in no time.
 
I might try a finder search for all mp3 files and m4as and just throw all the files into the one folder in the hope that itunes will group all the individual songs into proper folders again during the 'let itunes organise' type operation. Do you think this would work? A number of the files have been imported from CDs and so only display something like Track1, Track2 etc. Never seen a mess like it!
 
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