http://www.stillhq.com The life, times, travel and software of Michael Still en Copyright (c) Michael Still 2000 - 2006 blosxom simplerss20 v20050208hh 180 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss /macintosh/osx/itunes Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:49:00 PST I have quite a large iTunes library, and I've always been too lazy to move it across to something open source. However, last night I imported a bunch of CDs, and now I am the proud owner of 5,000 duplicate entries in the iTunes library. It seems like there are no tools to merge duplicate entries out there, which is important to me as I use the play and skip counts to build smart play lists of songs to sync to my iPod. <br/><br/> After doing a lot of surfing, toying with learning apple script (no, the language it too retarded), I ended up exporting the library to XML and writing a bad python script to fix it. I assume there is a better way to do this. <br/><br/><i>Tags for this post: macintosh(<a href="http://www.stillhq.com/macintosh"><img src="http://www.stillhq.com/tagicon.cgi?post=/macintosh/osx/itunes/000001&tag=macintosh&format=.png" border="0" alt="S"></a>) osx(<a href="http://www.stillhq.com/osx"><img src="http://www.stillhq.com/tagicon.cgi?post=/macintosh/osx/itunes/000001&tag=osx&format=.png" border="0" alt="S"></a>) itunes(<a href="http://www.stillhq.com/itunes"><img src="http://www.stillhq.com/tagicon.cgi?post=/macintosh/osx/itunes/000001&tag=itunes&format=.png" border="0" alt="S"></a>) </i> <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/macintosh/osx/itunes/000001.commentform.html">Comment</a> http://www.stillhq.com/macintosh/osx/itunes/000001.html http://www.stillhq.com/macintosh/osx/itunes/000001.html