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Claudia wrote on 2012-12-08 14:35
Woo! My parents and I have finally agreed on a laptop (the awesome Lenovo ThinkPad X230), and I should be getting it hopefully by the end of the year, so now I need to start thinking about moving my files over.
I haven't got much, barely 10GB of personal files (but obviously not enough to fit on my flash drive). I've already got my pictures, games, and other odds and ends all in one .rar archive, but my music is a bit trickier.
I use iTunes (because I have an iPhone, duh), but i've only bought <5% of my music on iTunes. I have 500 songs in my library, which is 3.1GB.
The problem is...somehow my music folder is more than double that ಠ_ಠ. My folder's a mess; I have my songs in my library duplicated when I added them in...but not all of them, and I don't know where or which ones. I have hundreds of songs in my music folder that I don't want any more, but if I delete them i'm worried I might accidentally delete songs I actually like/are in my library. And yes, i'm deleting music I don't want any more, i'm a minimalist neat-freak like that. I can't burn the songs onto a data CD, because I don't have an CD/ROM drive or an external one to borrow.
Is there a relatively painless way to do this? I don't mind comparing my library list to my files, but if there's a way that's quicker, i'd rather do that.
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-12-08 15:18
I use MediaMonkey for my music library, which has
two kinds of duplicate-finding functions.
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Claudia wrote on 2012-12-08 16:50
Huh, that is neat-o. Could I use it just to find duplicate files, then go back to itunes? I'm computer-tarded and I just like iTunes.
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Hannibal wrote on 2012-12-08 19:11
I would buy a flash drive, they're pretty cheap
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Taycat wrote on 2012-12-08 19:37
Yeah a flashdrive is even better and it's faster. Even if you have a few gigs of music, getting a 1gb will be better than uploading all that music then redownloading it later.
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Claudia wrote on 2012-12-08 20:39
Ooh! Or I could just use my 2GB flash drive and move it all in a couple of trips.
Wow, I answered my own question pretty quickly.
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-12-09 16:40
Quote from Claudia;994700:
Huh, that is neat-o. Could I use it just to find duplicate files, then go back to itunes? I'm computer-tarded and I just like iTunes.
I don't see why that wouldn't work. They don't herd the files on your PC for themselves, any program which recognises the file format can play them, doesn't even have to be a media player, some games have support for using your own music as background music too.
Maybe you'll like MM though!