Looking For Actual 'Sync' Tool For Multiple Computers

When I saw that syncing music via the iPod between computers was a new feature, I was Very Excited. I have music on my home machine and on my work machine. Each machine has about 3000 songs, with roughly 70% overlap on content, and only about 10% purchased through the iTunes Music Store. My iPod only gets synced to my home machine because of this.
I was hoping that this new feature would, in fact, synchronize the libraries of both machines into one cohesive library.
Sadly, this is not the case.
Any suggestions for combining both libraries into one *that don't require several hours of manual transfer* are welcome. Barring that, I guess I'll have to do the syncing myself.
Thanks!

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I know I can “roll my own” and design it from the ground up
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I am not familiar with any product that has functionality to track 'source' metadata at the column level. But I have helped architect and implement several data warehousing ETL systems that had to track the source of data for Sarbanes-Oxley, financial and auditing purposes.
All of these tracking mechnisms involved ETL of record-level data from a source system to staging tables to hold the data. The staging tables had columns to indicate the data source, whether it had been cleansed or not and what you refer to as 'confidence level'. This tracking and audit information was not carried forward into the production tables but was maintained securely for auditing purposes to prove what data and values had been originally transferred from source to target.
Once data is in the production system the original source of the data was no longer tracked since that data could be modified by app users or batch processes.
Your design will need to reflect whether you need to track the changes only within your ETL processes or even after it gets to production. If you are talking about column-by-column audit history then you will may want to look into Oracle's fine-grained access control.

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