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Duplicate Finder 2009
- the Most Advance Duplicate File Finder in the market.
It must take something to launch a duplicate finder saying that it is the most advanced dup' finder on the market. However, it is $30, for one machine only, $50 for two machines, so it still may not climb to the top of the (market) hill. You ("existing customers") can however get a 30% discount.
http://duplicate-finder-pro.com/
Note: this is not an update version of Duplicate Finder
Features
* Powerful search engines (byte by byte, crc32, mp3 duplicates, pattern duplicates)
* Find files with same contents, same name, same mp3 tags and pattern match.
* Find duplicate pictures, video, songs(mp3, wma, ogg, itunes, ipods)
* Preview pictures, songs, videos in built in Preview Window.
* Search within Zip Archives.
* Supports networks and removable media devices like (external hardisk, flash drives, etc.)
* Can find duplicates from a selected set of folders (i.e., not from whole drive).
* Allows important folders you wish to be excluded from scanning altogether.
* Can use wild cards and protects the windows and system folders.
* Very user friendly vista interface design with changeable skins.
* Save job session and results for later review.
* Results can be exported in HTML, XML and CSV formats.
Are 'you' going to test it and tell us what you think of it?
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Try Duplicate Finder 2009 today, and you will be amazed by all this new features.
Free Download : http://duplicate-finder-pro.com/downloads/dfpro2009.exe
Special 30% discount for our existing customers!
Please use shareit.com and enter below coupon in shareit shoping cart.
Discount Coupon: ashisoft-existing
Purchase link : http://www.duplicate-finder-pro.com/purchase.htm
Please note this is not an update version of Duplicate Finder. Duplicate Finder 2009 is the new product of our company.
Please visit : http://www.duplicate-finder-pro.com
If you have any questions/suggestions or lack any feature in our products, please feel free to contact us at anytime and we will be glad to answer any of your questions.
Best Regards
Mohammed Ishtiaq Hussain
www.ashisoft.com
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Existing Customer 30% Discount Coupon : existing-ashisoft
http://www.duplicate-finder-pro.com/purchase.htm?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Duplicate-Finder-2009
or:
http://www.duplicate-finder-pro.com/purchase.htm
Again: "Please note this is not an update version of Duplicate Finder.
Duplicate Finder 2009 is the new product of our company."
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I think I'll stick with the free Clonespy, works like a charm for some time now. Any company that releases the same program in updated form with a new name, but isn't eligible for upgrade pricing, because its "a new program" or name rather! is shady enough to not be worth a download. Seems similar to other foreign softwares that have setup and disappeared into the night like, WinOrganizer, TexNotes/To-Do Organizer, Audio Identifier, etc.. Steve Miller song lyrics come to mind....
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Any company that releases the same program in updated form with a new name, but isn't eligible for upgrade pricing, because its "a new program" or name rather! is shady enough to not be worth a download. -vegas
You may think the way you did, but you really shouldn't have said it out loud, at least not the way you did it, implying all sorts of things, without knowing.
Besides, comparing Clonespy with DF2009 is like comparing apples and pears, they are not the same, for the very simply reason that Clonespy doesn't read tags.
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If I go to www.ashisoft.com I'm pitched Duplicate Finder & the last release on that was back on June 1, 2008. You can buy this product in its basic form for $26.00 or along with MP3 search capability for $59.95.
Now if I go over to their other web site www.duplicate-finder-pro.com I find that I can buy that progam in its basic form for $29.95 or along with MP3 search capability for $49.95.
Looking at screenshots of both programs they do have some similarities. Maybe this new program is not not an upgrade to the old one. Fair enough. However, sitting on enhancements to this kind of program for a year just so you can roll out a new program with a different name leaving your old registered users out in the cold does not strike me as fair, either. I think a lot of negative connotations with what they are doing could have been circumvented by saying, "All right we're releasing Duplicate Finder v4.0. It has a lot of new features so we are having to ask everyone to pay an upgrade fee to the new version to cover R&D costs. Furthermore, with all these new features comes a new name for the product: Duplicate Finder Pro."
This all reminds me of what the Helium Music Manager folks did a few years ago. However, the Helium folks did not offer any discounts at all to their new version.
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In general it is a very good idea to TEST a program before spelling out any conclusions about it. DF2009 is far more advanced than any previous version, and gives a much better result. You may dislike it for any or for no reason, but Duplicate Finder 2009 is among the very best of the kind.
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Any company that releases the same program in updated form with a new name, but isn't eligible for upgrade pricing, because its "a new program" or name rather! is shady enough to not be worth a download. -vegas
You may think the way you did, but you really shouldn't have said it out loud, at least not the way you did it, implying all sorts of things, without knowing.
Besides, comparing Clonespy with DF2009 is like comparing apples and pears, they are not the same, for the very simply reason that Clonespy doesn't read tags.
-Curt
Yah, please excuse me, sometimes my hands contract short-term tourettes from my mouthy noodle. Without actually being a long term customer it is hard to make any accurate statement about their software or practices. I'll try better to keep my skepticism's to myself.
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Seems from all that's been said above it is the same company.
If so, it does seem shady for the new program to be launched in its own, new website with no mention of it on the old one. If it was just about upgrade pricing, did the old one come with 'lifetime' upgrades promised?
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If it was just about upgrade pricing, did the old one come with 'lifetime' upgrades promised?-Dormouse
No lifetime upgrades, but a promise of being able to upgrade at a 50% discount. Not only does this company not want to honor the 50% discount, but since there are no links to the new site or new program on the old site they want to make it as hard as possible for their existing customers to take advantage of any offer at all to upgrade.
And I don't care if a program is the best in its class or not if I cannot trust the company publishing it.
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- you may think that now I am contradicting myself, but I am in no way a fan of Ashisoft - I like the program, Duplicate Finder 2009, not the company. As a matter of fact, I wrote the owner&author half a year ago and yelled at him that he did not respect his own product!
I agree that there has been some very less-than-fine tactics; I just wanted all to differ between father and son, so to speak!
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Curt, I finally looked at this program to see what is so "advanced" about it. Leaving aside Ashisoft's business practices which I know nothing about, the program is a decent software with aesthetic appeal. It has a logical layout, skinnable interface, and accurately detects Byte by Byte or CRC32 duplicates. But I have several freeware tools that do just as well finding duplicates, though they may not be packaged as nicely. If Duplicate Finder 2009 would incorporate visual similarity analysis (like Dup Detector, VisiPics, etc), then I would be more impressed. Binary duplicate detection in a commercial product doesn't inspire me (and other freeware junkies) to run for the credit card.
However, as you suggested Curt, the Music Duplicates (MP3/WMA) analysis is a whole different ball game. It is much more "advanced", or at least new territory. These music duplicate analysis tools seem to be gaining popularity, as they are emerging in both the commercial and freeware landscape. I just recently noticed that two commercial sites which have done well with image duplicate/similarity software now have music duplicate/similarity software for offer:
Audio Dedupe at http://www.mindgems.com/products/Duplicate-MP3-Finder/Audio-Dedupe-About.htm, from the developers of Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder &
Audio Comparer at http://audiocomparer.com from the developers of Image Comparer http://www.bolidesoft.com.
Likewise, new freeware offerings include Similarity 0.9 at http://www.music-similarity.com and Music Content Inspector 1.0 beta at http://www.sloud.com/technology/music_content_inspector. These tools are rather raw and undeveloped at this early stage, yet they typically cover more file types than Duplicate Finder 2009 which only appears to cover MP3 and WMA.
EDIT: DF2009's documentation indicates it supports .ogg files. I ran several tests on my .ogg files, and the program didn't find files that the freeware Similarity did find. But if DF2009 supports .ogg, then I stand corrected on this issue.
Curt, your urging to test a program before drawing conclusions turns out to be solid advice. When I saw this thread months ago, I thought "another binary duplicate detector, who cares?" Well, turns out I do because of the music content analysis feature. I won't be purchasing this particular software, but your posting opened up a new avenue of software exploration. All of which is to say- thanks for posting. :Thmbsup:
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... and accurately detects Byte by Byte or CRC32 duplicates. -sajman99
The beginning of your post surprised me because I never would have thought about using DP2009 for image comparisons. I know that the author/company are trying to give the impression that it is for all kinds of comparisons, but it is targeted, as you then go on, for audio files. At least, that is the only thing I ever have tried to use it for. And because I only have MP3 and WMA in my music collection I didn't know about the limitation in supported extensions.
DP2009 and Audio Comparer are more or less equally good, but Audio Comparer suits me best. However, to me it is not always about using the best program, only, but also about taking part in developing/maturing - which is why I use more than one program for the job.
Thanks for telling about http://www.mindgems.com/products/Duplicate-MP3-Finder/Audio-Dedupe-About.htm - I have been searching for that one but had forgotten the name! :up:
Edited: Do (any of) you know what will happen if I let Audio-Dedupe run (for a week) to compare 40.000 files? Can it handle such a job? Vista, 32-bits, 4 GB.
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Now I remember why I didn't purchase the Mind Gems program(s) the first time I tried it/them. I strongly prefer share*it (Digital River) over RegSoft (also Digital River!!). And it is possible for me to use share*it if I want to buy a copy of the image-dupe finder, but not possible if I want to also have the audio-dupe finder at the same time! Then I will have to use RegSoft only!
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sajman99, you seem to be up on this type of software. Hopefully, you'll let us know which program(s) you think are the best at detecting dupes (and why). I could really use a good dupe-finding program, but would really appreciate an opinion from someone who has tried them all.
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After exploring these music analysis tools a bit further, I can now declare my preference for Mindgems' Audio Dedupe. Its results were spot-on accurate, illuminating multiple duplicate songs I didn't know existed in my collection of approximately 10,000 songs. For example, it seems Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock had the same song entitled "Picture" on each of their respective albums. Who knew? Apparently not me because I have two copies of the same song, albeit at different bitrates.
In accordance with MindGems' policy at http://www.mindgems.com/products/Duplicate-MP3-Finder/Audio-Dedupe-About.htm :
The Demo version of Audio Dedupe is not trial, but with the following limitations:
You cannot delete or move the selected duplicate files using Move or Delete Selected buttons.
You cannot use Open with Associated Program and Locate in Explorer popup menu items.
You cannot Save/Load projects.
I also tried the two freeware tools noted above, and I can only give my opinion: they're still too beta-ish to be useful. Since Similarity is updated fairly regularly and really looks promising, I intend to watch its development carefully.
@Curt: 40,000 songs? Wow, that's a substantial music collection. Audio Dedupe analyzed 10,000 songs in roughly 45 minutes on XP, 32-bits, 4 GB, E6850. Unless Audio Dedupe unpredictably grinds to a halt, I would expect it to easily complete 40,000 files over the course of one day/night, certainly not an entire week. ;D
Also, the freeware Duplicate Cleaner at http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/content/duplicate-cleaner cites the ability to "Deep scan music formats - mp3, wma, flac, ogg, ape, etc", but all it does for me is crash when I attempt to scan music files on an external HD. >:( Without actually testing the program, I cannot say what "deep scanning" really means (ie. how advanced is this software?). In any event, others may have better luck with Duplicate Cleaner so I'll pass along the info FWIW.
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Seems to cover a limited number of music formats though. No use to me without FLAC. Or APE, come to think of it.
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After exploring these music analysis tools a bit further, I can now declare my preference for Mindgems' Audio Dedupe. -sajman99
- I agree; I purchased a copy just yesterday ;)
Have you tried their Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder? The price went down, so I was thinking about trying it out, but then there was this situation with the share*it versus RegSoft, so I got annoyed and closed the page! :-[
It's a little strange to read that Duplicate Cleaner was crashing for you on XP. It was reported to have problems with Vista's "Data Execution Prevention", but I don't know of any problems with XP. Anyway, the author has not updated the program for a year, even though he gave it its own homepage, http://www.duplicatecleaner.com/ , and the 'advanced' scanning techniques have not yet been fully implemented.... (see their forum).
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I am currently going though my audio collection (I think it is about 2,000) with Jaikoz Audio Tagger (http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/). I will grab a copy of the trial version of Audio DeDupe and see how it compares in terms of finding dupes. Jaikoz does much more than just find dupes. All I need now is more time to actually work this.
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@Dormouse: The lack of support for lossless audio is a valid point which didn't occur to me (MP3 & OGG collection here). It should be emphasized that Audio Dedupe is a new software (version 1.0.0.1 currently) which will only get better. If Mindgems' Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder's (VSDIF) development history is any indication, then Audio Dedupe will likely have a steady development with more supported file types, more refined interface, etc. Also, FWIW the few times I have contacted their support team they have responded in a timely and professional manner.
@Curt: Indeed, VSDIF is a very good software- accurate, speedy, easily navigable. Based on VSDIF and Audio Dedupe, I really like the MindGems software. Just a few years ago, VSDIF was so unbearably slow it wasn't worth the effort waiting for its results. Presently, I can only offer congratulations to MindGems for "getting over the hump" and overcoming whatever speed obstacles they once faced.
Have you processed your entire music collection of 40,000 files yet? Just curious. ;)
@tinjaw: Look forward to your results/impressions.
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... Jaikoz Audio Tagger (http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/). .... All I need now is more time to actually work this.-tinjaw
- my very thought when I looked at the inside of Jaikoz was something like: "What university must I join, and for how long, to understand how to work this program?"! But it sure looks capable!!
I don't understand why Jaikoz can't be activated via Explorer's context menu? I don't like when a program takes me to leave the place I already am placed, in order to come back via another window, so to speak. I guess Jaikoz should be used for collections only, rather than for a single folder, not to say a file. What I mean is, that Mp3tag would have retagged and renamed the lot, before Jaikoz even have found the folder in question! Edit: But of course, that wouldn't include MusicBrainz, etcetera
Just a few years ago, VSDIF was so unbearably slow
-sajman99
- Bolide had the same problem in the beginning, but is reasonable fast, now.
Have you processed your entire music collection of 40,000 files yet? -sajman99
No, but I might let it work while I am at work tomorrow - if only I can remember it before I close the door behind me; I am even more slow thinking in the mornings... :-[
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Hehehe :D I wasn't talking about needing the time to learn Jaikoz, but rather that it will take so much time to do a good job at sorting out all my music. But I can see how so many features and a crowded UI could be quite intimidating.
Jaikoz is not a tool for quick checks, but instead for more intensive work. You should know that you could simply start up Jaikoz and immediately tell it to run a default search on a chosen directory. Quite easy actually.
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Reading through these posts I am now wondering if any of these programs can help me fix my music library.
I use MediaMonkey and I used to have it set to auto-organize - one of MM's favorite features. However it somehow went totally crazy and got way out of control. It has renamed a fair number of my MP3 tracks to other tracks' names. I posted on the MM forum about this and the only solution I found there was a plugin called MusicIP, wihch you set to replace MM's "Auto-tag from the Internet" feature. MusicIP spins for a while and then comes back with the actual track name and details - the correct stuff. And I then select the "Auto-Tag" button and that track is fixed. Problem is that I don't know which tracks were erroneously misnamed until I happen to try and play the track and something else starts coming out of the speakers! :o >:(
So the only way now to fix all the bad named tracks in my library (~2,000 tracks) is to listen to each one by one and compare it to the track name. I don't have the patience for that. I have been doing a couple a day for weeks now. Grrrr..
Would any of these programs be able to find the misnamed tracks and repair them? That would be more than worth the cost of a license.
Thanks!
Jim
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A terrible situation, J-Mac. My deepest sympathy!
Do you feel almost certain that the files at least have the proper artist's name?
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A terrible situation, J-Mac. My deepest sympathy!
Do you feel almost certain that the files at least have the proper artist's name?
-Curt
Nope. E.g., last week I was listening to some Dylan stuff with MM organized by Artist>Albums. I noticed that it showed I had several dupes of certain tracks. When "You Go Your Way" was up Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" started blaring from the speakers! Nothing in the tag suggested that it was anything but the Dylan song it was "disguised" as. Whatever finds them, if anything, has to do it strictly by the audio.
Jim
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Would any of these programs be able to find the misnamed tracks and repair them? That would be more than worth the cost of a license.
-J-Mac
That is one of the tasks Jaikoz is built to handle. I suggest you download the trial version and invest the time to learn how to use it. I think you would be pleased with the results.
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Bolide Audio Comparer ("now"?) states to listen to the music
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Curt, are you using Audio Comparer?
Thanks!
Jim
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- yes, I am using Bolide's Audio Comparer, and I like it. I am however looking forward to compare (!) Audio Comparer with Audio Dedupe and Duplicate Finder 2009. I have all three but have not yet sat down and figured out which one may be the best. My *GUESS* is that "our" DP2009 will loose such battle - But time will show.
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It's fortunate for us that others like Mindgems are also listening- the competition between Bolidesoft and Mindgems forces continued development of their softwares. If Bolidesoft now supports lossless audio and tag editing, then it's a very good bet Mindgems will incorporate those features soon. Looks like Bolidesoft's Audio Comparer was first released in January 2009 and Mindgems only recently had their first public release of Audio Dedupe, so I'm guessing Bolidesoft had a bit of a head start.
I realize I'm entirely too picky, but Bolidesoft's Audio Comparer has several little issues that annoy me.
(1) I know it's trial software, but do they have to start with the incessant "Do you want to buy now" on day one? Bolidesoft, let me test your software for several days before you begin pestering. Mindgems' Audio Dedupe has a much more low-key approach-- a demo with feature limitations.
(2) AFAIK I must store database files in Audio Comparer; in Mindgems' software you have a "no cache" option. Bolidesoft, I would like the choice.
(3) I would prefer to keep my database files somewhere other than My Documents; Bolidesoft allows me, but nonetheless an empty Audio Comparer folder resides in My Documents. I can delete it, but rest assured it returns upon relaunching the app. Likewise, Audio Comparer has no memory of where I last stored database files; the only location it remembers is My Documents. Therefore, every time I create another database I have to click around like I've never used the app before. Carpal Tunnel, anyone? ;)
(4) Whether it's Bolidesoft's Image Comparer or Audio Comparer, their software seems to suffer from short term memory loss regarding the user-selected similarity %. If my preference is for a 60% tolerance (ie. non-default value) in Audio Comparer, the software should remember it the next time I use the app. From my experience, it's hit or miss- sometimes Bolidesoft remembers but sometimes not.
(5) Bolidesoft's software protection scheme (Obsidium http://www.obsidium.de/show/home/en for Image Comparer and something? quite similar for Audio Comparer) resides in the registry and in my XP win.ini. Bolidesoft, stay the heck out of my win.ini file. I like to labor under the delusion I control my computer rather than it controlling me.
Yes, I know- picky, picky, picky. But darned if I don't feel better now. :D
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It's fortunate for us that others like Mindgems are also listening- the competition between Bolidesoft and Mindgems forces continued development of their softwares. If Bolidesoft now supports lossless audio and tag editing, then it's a very good bet Mindgems will incorporate those features soon. Looks like Bolidesoft's Audio Comparer was first released in January 2009 and Mindgems only recently had their first public release of Audio Dedupe, so I'm guessing Bolidesoft had a bit of a head start.
I realize I'm entirely too picky, but Bolidesoft's Audio Comparer has several little issues that annoy me.
(1) I know it's trial software, but do they have to start with the incessant "Do you want to buy now" on day one? Bolidesoft, let me test your software for several days before you begin pestering. Mindgems' Audio Dedupe has a much more low-key approach-- a demo with feature limitations.
(2) AFAIK I must store database files in Audio Comparer; in Mindgems' software you have a "no cache" option. Bolidesoft, I would like the choice.
(3) I would prefer to keep my database files somewhere other than My Documents; Bolidesoft allows me, but nonetheless an empty Audio Comparer folder resides in My Documents. I can delete it, but rest assured it returns upon relaunching the app. Likewise, Audio Comparer has no memory of where I last stored database files; the only location it remembers is My Documents. Therefore, every time I create another database I have to click around like I've never used the app before. Carpal Tunnel, anyone? ;)
(4) Whether it's Bolidesoft's Image Comparer or Audio Comparer, their software seems to suffer from short term memory loss regarding the user-selected similarity %. If my preference is for a 60% tolerance (ie. non-default value) in Audio Comparer, the software should remember it the next time I use the app. From my experience, it's hit or miss- sometimes Bolidesoft remembers but sometimes not.
(5) Bolidesoft's software protection scheme (Obsidium http://www.obsidium.de/show/home/en for Image Comparer and something? quite similar for Audio Comparer) resides in the registry and in my XP win.ini. Bolidesoft, stay the heck out of my win.ini file. I like to labor under the delusion I control my computer rather than it controlling me.
Yes, I know- picky, picky, picky. But darned if I don't feel better now. :D
-sajman99
I don't think you are being overly picky at all. All that you mentioned are certainly valid annoyances.
Thanks!
Jim
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I've been reading this thread without ever having used, or realising I had a desire to use, one of these progs. But if they deep scan/listen and check on the net, does this mean that one of the functions is naming tracks recorded from streamed audio?
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..., does this mean that one of the functions is naming tracks recorded from streamed audio?-Dormouse
I (too) have been dreaming of such a wonder program!
Now I have instead stopped downloading streams... ;D
Some radio stations will tag their streams, and some won't. I personally cannot imagine a program naming untagged files (except maybe if they have the exact same length as the official album version, which streamed radio music seldom has); but *I don't know*. So I too will look forward to someone answering your question.
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RE: Jaikoz
Definitely a user interface only a mother could love. The two words that immediately sprung to mind: Ugly-azz Java. :'(
Yuck! I'll try it out shortly, but Ad Muncher catches the initial User Agreement dialog as a pop-up so my first attempt launching the app resulted in the program being invisible. Not a great start, but I'll persevere.
I'm really enjoying the serious discussion here regarding duplicate finding apps. I'd enjoy it even more if you satisfied users were to coerce the software developers to offer DC members some sweet discounts. :)
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To be honest, I'm not a hardcore audiophile who can't sleep at night unless my music collection is perfectly organized and categorized. I mean, a few duplicate songs is not really of monumental consequence to me. For that reason, I have decided to sit tight with Mindgems' Audio Dedupe for the time being, and hope they continue to develop their software.
Just in case Curt (or other music nut :P) can't get enough of these music analysis tools, I searched around a bit to see what else is available. I found generally positive comments about a software named Phelix- a java-based shareware at http://www.pekarna.si which is described as a "music duplicates tool with acoustical audio matcher. Goal of the application is to find duplicated audio files inside selected folders. Duplicates with bad or missing music-tags but same or similar sound will be detected by audio matcher. Audio matcher will detect duplicates even if audio signals are shifted; started at different moments; if audio signals are ripped with different bit rates; if audio signals are ripped with different volumes."
Phelix's setup file is around 17.38 MB, and it costs $19 for the full version. In case anyone decides to take it for a spin, please let me know if it's a serious contender.
Good Luck, sajman99 :)
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Phelix (http://www.pekarna.si/)'s ... costs $19 for the full version. -sajman99
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purchase includes 30-day e-mail support and free updates for 1 year.-Phonome Labs
Maybe I'll test it during the next week-end; it sure sounds promissing:
Program design of Phelix obliges to concurrent computing paradigm. This is done to get computing power from MultiCore CPU PC systems. User can control the level of concurrency. Performance: 4 audio executions per seconds on AMD Opteron 270 (DualCore) in 1 thread mode, or 7 audio executions per seconds in 2 threads mode (memory consumption: approximately 40MB of RAM for 1000 songs).
Classical audio tags matcher operates on OGG and MP3 files. Music-tags matcher has a very long history and has evolved continuously.
Supported strategies are: Strict Tags strategy, Less Strict Tags strategy. Loose Tags strategy, and [Artist, Song] strategy. Matching can operate in incremental mode. In this mode, user can work on so-far collected duplicates while the matcher processes are in progress.
Program automatically chooses which duplicates will be moved out and which one will be kept. Decision is ruled by 'keep-file-criteria'. Criteria is controlled by user and can include comparisons of: file type, file length, bit rate, song length, number of songs in folder and file creation time. User can manually overrule the program decisions.
Program automatically detects distrusted groups of duplicates. Detection criteria is based on song length deviation and can be controlled by user. Distrusted groups of duplicates can be separated from trusted.
Files are never deleted by this tool, they are removed to the destination directory. Undo remove operation is supported (if removed files are not deleted by user).
Achieved knowledge about the scanned music can be persistently saved in Phelix's library repository. Stored information will be retrieved from repository when needed to skip the re-execution of jobs that have already been executed in previous runs of application.
Wizards and contextual menu (right-click) are supported to ease the application usage.
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Greetings, I just noticed MindGems has released a newer version of their Audio Dedupe (version 1.2.0.1).
http://www.mindgems.com/products/Duplicate-MP3-Finder/Audio-Dedupe-WhatsNew.htm :
Added support for AAC, MP4, FLAC, AC3, WavPack (WV), Musepack (MPC) and Windows Media Audio (WMA) file formats.
Added support for FLAC, WMA and MP4 tags.
Added AIF as recognized AIFF extension.
User can now quick rename files using F2 or Rename popup menu (only in registered version).
Project modified status in program caption is now updated correctly.
Still no APE support apparently, but it looks like they are moving in the right direction--forward! Good Day, sajman99