hi !

I have many many mp3 dupes and I can't kill them !

I've tried some dupe finders (mp3filter for instance) but no luck.

The program I need should not look at filenames or even ID3 tags for determining dupes.
Instead, it should include some kind of algorhythm that
compare the audio content of mp3s.
I've tried DuplicatEraseR2 which would seems to be ok, but unfortunately
it crashes and it's useless.

Please help me to kill my dupes !

Thanks

You could try NoClone (http://noclone.net/). Works quite well from my experience.

Hi all, longtime lurker, first post. For finding dupes of any file, Duplifinder works well. It calculates the MD5sum hash of any file (not just audio) and displays a list of identical files, no matter their name. It shows the path and which one is older, if you care about that. It's a .jar file, runs well in Linux or Windows.

Won't doing that only show identical files? Say if you have 2 MP3 files of the same song enocded at the same bit rate but with different encoders it would not show them as dupes, as would be a different size and teh algorithm to used to encode would save diffferent data

To find identical files you could just use the metadata. What's harder to do is find files where the metadata is the same but the file is not, or when the file is the same and the metadata is different.

or just delete music that you illegally downloaded and go buy the albums...

that should clear things up a bit.

Yes, Duplifinder only shows identical files. It doesn't know or care about tags, or even what it is. It is of no use finding same songs in different formats, or from different encoders. It is great to find the extra copies that sometimes get scattered across a drive. If it flags it, you know it's safe to delete one of them.

thanks for replies. What I'm really looking for is this :
a program that could dectect mp3s that are identically encoded
BUT with slight differences in leading silence.
Some have 0.2 or 0.5 or 0.1 second of silence at the beginning.
So for most dupe finders they won't seem to be clones, but they
are !
I was thinking of automatically trimming the lead silence
but is there a good freeware that could do that in batch ?
Or even better, is there a freeware that can automatically
detect and split songs from one big mp3 (with no leading silence of course so that dupes can be found with a dupe killer)

oh, I must add that I tried MP3directcut and MP3 splitter & joiner
but they don't seem to be the right tools for this.