james-chapman / musicsorter

MusicSorter

MusicSorter

About

I have a lot of duplicate MP3s and want to delete the lower quality file. This was written to rename and restructure all my files in a way that would make it easy to spot duplicates and then delete the lower quality file.

It iterates through a folder of MP3 files and moves and renames them into a new folder and you typically end up with something like:

• new_folder/artist/album_type/(year) album/01 - 128 - song_title.mp3
• new_folder/artist/album_type/(year) album/01 - 320 - song_title.mp3

You can easily see which file is the lower quality file and delete it. While size is also a good indicator, it isn't always a true indicator because VBR can result in a smaller yet higher quality file.

System requirements

• Python 2.7 (http://www.python.org/download/)

Usage

• Modify the config file first!
• Now run python run.py and read the available run time parameters.

Everything is logged to a logfile called MP3MusicSorter.log

Changelog

6 September 2013

• Massive database improvements.
• A lot of Windows file system related bug fixes.
• Activity indicator during the sort_and_rename process.

4 September 2013

• Added SQLite DB queries to show tracks that have more than 1 file associated with it.
• Added MP3Exception class.

1 September 2013

• Initial project creation.

Known Issues

• None

Future Features

• Pattern matching for custom folder/file structures.

Having Problems?

The 2 libraries required for this app to run are bundled with it:

• mutagen library
• ConfigParser library (may not work)

If the bundled ConfigParser library does not work you will need to add it to your python environment. To do that, perform the following steps:

1. Download ez_setup.py from https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
2. Open a command prompt and run python ez_setup.py

"pip" should now be installed in C:\Python27\Scripts Run pip install ConfigParser

The same with mutagen if it fails.