radiodungog
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Dmitry,
We got into some bad habits in the Radio Dungog studio in the past 3 years. The main problem that continues to trouble us is the duplicate music files.
In the early days we had a problem with the RadioBOSS playlist content being deleted. That has been fixed - but to get around the problem our presenters created Windows folders for themselves and for the shows and stored extra copies of the music in them.
The end result was we ended up with music in our master library folder and multiple duplicates of the songs in the private folders. The presenters also added new music to their private folders - so no copies of this in the master folder.
I want to fix this up by:
1. Retaining our master library folder (music ripped from CDs)
2. Eliminating duplicate files from the personal folders AND retaining any unique files from the personal folders that are not present in the master library folder.
The numbers are extreme - 100,000 songs in the master library folder and 65,000 songs in the personal folders (many of which are duplicates)
When complete we would end up with:
a) Master library: w:\m11
b) Auxiliary library: w:\m99
c) Where the complete library ends up being: w:\m11 + w:\m99
Can you think of a way to do this ?
Thanks, Jamie C.
We got into some bad habits in the Radio Dungog studio in the past 3 years. The main problem that continues to trouble us is the duplicate music files.
In the early days we had a problem with the RadioBOSS playlist content being deleted. That has been fixed - but to get around the problem our presenters created Windows folders for themselves and for the shows and stored extra copies of the music in them.
The end result was we ended up with music in our master library folder and multiple duplicates of the songs in the private folders. The presenters also added new music to their private folders - so no copies of this in the master folder.
I want to fix this up by:
1. Retaining our master library folder (music ripped from CDs)
2. Eliminating duplicate files from the personal folders AND retaining any unique files from the personal folders that are not present in the master library folder.
The numbers are extreme - 100,000 songs in the master library folder and 65,000 songs in the personal folders (many of which are duplicates)
When complete we would end up with:
a) Master library: w:\m11
b) Auxiliary library: w:\m99
c) Where the complete library ends up being: w:\m11 + w:\m99
Can you think of a way to do this ?
Thanks, Jamie C.