iTunes duplicates

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OK, bear with me on this one.

My mate has ripped his entire CD collection....in WMA format. As you know iTunes doesn't like WMA format.

iTunes converted MOST of his library, into the larger AAC format, before he realised what what happening to his HDD space (he only has a 70gig drive) and stopped the conversion...

On top of this his iTunes purchases where purchased in AAC.

So...

Now he has SOME of his music duplicated. SOME in just AAC, SOME in just WMA and SOME in both WMA AND AAC.

A mess I know.

I have changed iTunes to convert music into MP3 now so when it does convert, the files will at least be smaller, but what I want to know is what you think the best way of sorting this mess out so that we'd idealy be left just onw copy of everything, and it would be in MP3.

Phew
 
BTW, I have all the music backup up. My idea was to delete the entire music Lib, make sure iTunes is set to convert to mp3, then add the entire library from backup, let it convert and finally do a *.wma search al delete it all.

Obviously this will only work if he has enough HDD space
 
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