Itunes and Terminal Gurus; search file format question

[coreybox]

Hello,

Through some scripting mishap, I accidentally ended up with two copies of everything in my iTunes library. One was in lossless format, the other in AAC.

I just went through and deleted all the AACs by hand. I'm worried that I might have accidentally deleted a lossless copy though, in stead of the AAC copy.

Is there a way I can search through the trash (via terminal presumably) to make sure there are no lossless files in there? It'd be so easy if they didn't have the same extension....

thanks,
Corey

 

[RemarkabLee]

file <filename>

Should tell you the contents of the file, whether it is lossless or AAC.

Write a script around that command

 

[coreybox]

file <filename>

Should tell you the contents of the file, whether it is lossless or AAC.

Write a script around that command

Thanks for the response.

Sadly, I tried that last night but couldn't get it to work. The file command seemingly returns the same information for both lossless and aac files.

 

[coreybox]

Here is a picture illustrating what I said above:

The top file is a known AAC file, the bottom is an apple lossless file. The output of the file command is identical.

Anybody know a way to differentiate them using some terminal command?

thanks,
Corey

 

[rpp3po]

Next time you try something like that, just add the file type column to iTunes and sort by it. The upper half will be AAC the lower ALAC.

For your present problem use 'afinfo --brief <filename>'.

 

[coreybox]

Next time you try something like that, just add the file type column to iTunes and sort by it. The upper half will be AAC the lower ALAC.

For your present problem use 'afinfo --brief <filename>'.

thank you! The simplest solution is the best!

I wasn't aware that was even a display option in iTunes...