[P1] iTunes Help

[david]

On 12/15/03 12:55 PM, "Charles Pearce" <charlesp at ksu.edu> wrote:

> This list has been helpful in directing me and others to nifty
> solutions, so I thought I would throw this one out to you all:
> I have many gigabytes of music that I have ripped from my own CDs and
> downloaded from both the iTunes Music Store and eMusic (cancelled my
> membership to them when they got bought-out and ended their $9.95 a
> month unlimited downloads). I have a bunch of gigabytes on my iBook,
> another bunch on my office G4, another bunch on my home G4, and another
> bunch on an external firewire hard drive. All in all, it amounts to
> about 40-40 gigabytes. I know there is a lot of duplication among all
> these libraries and I would like to consolidate them into one library
> (I'm getting an iPod!), but I don't want to spend my life going through
> looking for the duplicates. So, here's the question: does anyone know
> of a program or AppleScript that can go through these libraries and get
> rid of the duplicates? Also, is there any way that I can keep my newly
> consolidated library on a hard drive that's different from the Home
> drive? I've added additional internal hard drives to both my office and
> home G4s and would like to use them for storage of things like this,
> but iTunes wants to import the files to the users' Music folder.

I did this several months ago when my wife got her new computer and we
decided to meld our two playlists. What I did was use the shareware program
"iTunes Publisher". It does lotsa stuff (worth looking at) but one thing it
does is create a tab delimited file containing every album. You decide
exactly what else to include.

I created a file from each computer with group/artist name and album name.
(Telling it to ignore song titles, didn't care about them) Then I opened
these files up in AppleWorks database and sorted. That let me quickly go
through and mark the duplicates. Then I copied the non-duplicates to my
computer.

david