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Duplicate files/folders detecting software...

So my music collection is getting to be a pain, with transcoded mp3's and the original FLAC's all over the place. I need a way to find my duplicate files (and folders), either based on partial filename or foldername, as well as the option to do other files (my photographies, hence off topic) that seems to have doubled up certain places. An option on keeping the first found record of the duplicate files (based on date) would be great.

In short, anyone know of a program that can find duplicate files (1000+ in some cases) and handle it with certain amounts of ease ? It shouldnt be based on tags/metadata, but rather file size, creation date etc.

A forum search didnt help me out at all... :/

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Reply #1 –
Thanks for the tip, but Id prefer if it was freeware or most preferably an open-source project...

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Hm, quite old thread. But I hope it'll still be of help: CloneSpy

Make sure, to check out the options "Files->Exclude files or file patterns". Compiled binaries are ignored in the search by default, you might want to disable this.

Also note that this tool, won't be able to compare the raw MP3 streams, i.e. ignore tags. It's really a simple comparison tool, which can only compare based on file size, name and of course the actual full content.

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: sizetwo on
Thanks for the tip, but Id prefer if it was freeware or most preferably an open-source project...

I mentioned such thing recently in the essential software thread

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Duplicate Files Finder - does what its name says; and indeed, when compared with few other apps I've tried, its speed claims seem well grounded. Plus it's also very non-bloatware style app.


As you can see it's on Sourceforge, so - open source app. First it makes a list of files with identical sizes, then it scans the suspected duplicates (but not through generating hashes of whole files - it moves onto next suspected files at the first bit that's different)

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Reply #4 –
I dream that one day someone(s) will create a software that not only ignores tags, but also capable of looking for the similarity between audio files, even if one is encoded in MP3 and another is encoded in AAC.
 

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Reply #5 –
I've got this http://www.duplicatecleaner.com/ installed. But I've only run it once, because it found more duplicates than I had time to chose what I wanted and didnt want to keep

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Reply #6 –
Quote from: pepoluan on
I dream that one day someone(s) will create a software that not only ignores tags, but also capable of looking for the similarity between audio files, even if one is encoded in MP3 and another is encoded in AAC.

I stumble upon this one: AudioComparer, it's not free, but if it does what it promises to do, it's meets your requirements.