How to tidy up messy music

[ringo747]

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

 

[ringo747]

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.

 

[ringo747]

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!