blog: duplicate MP3 finder

Post by **nikos** » 2010 Dec 12, 11:46

here's the comment area for today's blog post found here
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/12Dec10-dupl ... finder.htm

lian · Post by **lian** » 2010 Dec 12, 11:53

And for the images

? There are some tools to compare them but it could be nice to have this implemented in xplorer.

Post by **nikos** » 2010 Dec 12, 14:19

i can't think of anything similar to ID3 tags for pictures, but as these are most likely coming from your camera they won't be duplicate, and if they are at worst a comparison by content (if not just by simple name/size) should be enough to locate any duplicates

lian · Post by **lian** » 2010 Dec 12, 14:30

I was thinking of paintings and illustrations. It's a pain to find duplicate content as I got a lot of them on my hard drive and don't remember what I did find when surfing

But I suppose it needs particular algorithm for such things.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Dec 12, 16:01

Hmm, I use Similarity for that which also checks the acoustic fingerprint of music files.

Post by **nikos** » 2010 Dec 13, 06:47

there are many exciting algorithms for recongizing similarity in pictures or sounds. One could use neural networks for such pattern recognition. I wonder how practical that would be though for checking a few thousands of files, it could take ages!

frederiko · Post by **frederiko** » 2016 Jan 09, 14:45

DuplicateFilesDeleter is a simple, but effective tool to locate duplicate files in one or more selected search paths. It scans the files and compares them based on Byte for Byte Comparison, which ensures 100% accuracy. You can then choose to delete the selected duplicate or original files. The program is multi-threaded and performs scans quickly.