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TrID file identifier

Just a note to let you know that my freeware utility now recognize over 1000 different file types (among with many different and even exotic audio file format, but also archiver, etc.).

When you have some file that you can't recognize/identify, maybe TrID can!

TrIDNet:


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TrID file identifier

Reply #1 –
How does this compare to file(1)?
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." Or maybe your words.

TrID file identifier

Reply #2 –
It's indeed similar in many aspects.
But there are also some differences.

First, TrID works only with binary files.
But, it's designed to be very easyly expandable to cover new file formats: no knowledge of the files structure is needed to build a new definitions suitable for any format.
Just collect a some files of that particular type (the more, the better) and run the TrIDScan utility against them to automatically detect recurring patterns.

This way, the list of supported file types is grown very fast (thanks to many contributors who have supplied new defs), and ones can even build new defs for personal or propietary file formats (for ex. some data files relative to some program/procedures of their organizations).

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TrID file identifier

Reply #3 –
TrID is now available also as a webtool.

Online TrID file identifier

It's an online version of my standalone TrID file identifier, an utility designed to identify binary files.
You have simply to choose what file to analyze, and click on the Upload button.
Then TrID will list a serie of match, showing relevant URL with additional info for every listed filetype (if available). The extensions showed are also clickable, and point to the relevant section of the FILExt website.

Here's a sample output for a La file:



The analysys's results are exactly the same as the standalone version of TrID, as both are based on the same TrIDEngine library.

Here are some links:

Online TrID file identifier

TrID standalone
TrID.Net (with GUI)
List of knowed filetypes (over 1.170) (many audio formats among them)

Hope this will be helpful for someone!

Bye!