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May try this program when I get home, though after reading some the previous issues, think I will copy a small portion of my library to a portable drive and see how it goes.
Not letting it mess up all 250Gb+ of my music. Took years to rip all them and digging all the vinyl and CDs out is not something I want to do again.

It is worth a go, just don't go in blind, as it were. Worth doing a manual sweep, as it will only replace what you want.
if your plan is to export to a external drive, I would recommend it manual and use it to import to your ext drive from your main collection. So that's telling it the import dir is the ext drive and it's taking from the last one, sort of cp or mv - but inverted.
Not totally sure of the search algorithm it uses, best results were got by asking it, like this: apparently a filename with .mp3 foxes it, this is the wheezy version, so YMMV.... Not 100% hoe it would feel about vinyl rips, although it's file based really, if the album is in musicbrainz (i think some vinyl releases are in there) then it's cool.
As you can see I was importing back to the main collection, which in this case wiped the original.
I'm still going through and tidying up, I see that as exactly what I asked the prog to do.

And, more importantly - where is this fucking mixtape!? :)

hmm, seems to be some dissatisfaction with the results then, shouldn't this thread be called "how not to..." ?!

C'est du déjà-vu.

Dissatisfaction with the way I thought about how it should be configured.
Now I see how it works, it's doing a good job.

^^ il faut essayer pour savoir de fois :P

Thanks for the write-up, wux - it worked really well for my measly collection (~3Gb) :D