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Topic: Duplicate MP3 Finder

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Does any one have a good recommendation of a software to use? I got quite a few hits when I googled this but I would rather cheat and get the pros and cons of some that may have done this before. I just joined up with a friend of mine and we merged our music collections. There is obviously ALOT of duplicates to be weeded out! :-(

Thanks!
 
geposted Thu 04 Oct 07 @ 6:24 pm
It took me forever to find this program since I was looking for the same type of software you are looking for now. I am glad I can help someone out. :-) An awesome program for the job would be Phelix. It detects music by its audio and not by the ID3 tags. It can be a little complicated to set up, but the help files helped me with the detection process. Read them for more info.

Be careful and listen to each audio song it detects as a duplicate because it will probably make mistakes, but the program is still pretty darn good. It will take time to detect (took me about 40 minutes) and to listen to all of the detected duplicates after it is done. It took me about 5 hours to go through all of the detected duplicate songs, one-by-one. It made about 20 mistakes out of my 5000+ songs I have now.

It often detects the instrumental version of the song as the same as the vocal version. In addition, remixes can confuse the program.

I remember I had a problem with its memorized database and I had to delete it manually to rebuild it so that it did not make as many mistakes.

Go to this folder (one slash did not work when I posted them so I had to enter two slashes to turn it into one slash for this forum post) 

Documents and Settings\\(Your User Name)\\phelix\\music-library

and delete the bigger file that does NOT end in ".indices". Make sure that you can view file extensions. I forget the exact file since I deleted it after I was done the first time so that I did not have to delete it the next time I ran the program.

Phelix's Web Site
 
 
Done with scanning. The file is called something like "temporary__My Music_-36516395.items". Mine was about 14 MBs. It appears after clicking on "Save" in the program.

To get around the 500MB shareware limitation. Double click all of the files you want to delete to open in WMP 11. Then right-click on each song and select "Open File Location" and delete from there. I know, I know, I am cheap, but it worked.
 
If you are using XP or Vista why not just use the search function by using *.mp3 and then listing by name?
 
Some files might be named incorrectly. In addition, that takes longer to do and it is easy to skip over some duplicate songs by accident.
 
Here's a very good one..MP3 Organizer pro...and it's free too.
 
Abeetech...

Best there is
 
 
Nice to know. I might try it as well. It does not go by the audio waveform data though. It goes by the ID3 tags. If your ID3 tags are a mess then this might not be accurate.
 
ewitles wrote :
Abeetech...

Best there is



Thanks! just what I needed ;)
 


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