I am sure some of you have had this issue before if you use more than one platform at home. Personally for me, OS X and iTunes lack some audio features I like so I don't do my audio ripping from my personal CD collection on a Mac. I do it on my windows/Linux box so I can take advantage of some good open source formats like OGG, FLAC, and MP3vbr (though I think the newest release of itunes will support VBR? not sure). [Editor: iTunes has had VBR support for quite a while.] However, I like to have my music collection on my Mac so I can listen to my music when I am working on it, and my laptop is a Macbook Pro. I am sure a lot of you already know this, and this is nothing new or exciting, but I have used basic Unix commands to copy my music directory from my PC to my Mac using rsync, and have not had it copy over any duplicate albums. For example, I have about 40GB of music ripped to my PC of my own personal collection. When I copy it via SMB over the network, ...

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