Very handy indeed...thanks a lot dude. Good job. -Shackman

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Recently I've discovered an interesting tool called Phelix, it seems to be a successor of a freeware Seek & Destroy Music Duplicates. Phelix is unique in one feature: it actually identifies duplicates by listening to music. How it works, I don't know, but it's surprisingly fast (from the aspect of fact that it is obviously processing mp3 audio). Lots of zombie-duplicates have been found, invisible for conventional tag-matchers (50 in my master collection of 3000 songs). Tool selects also songs with sound similarities. Conventional tag-matcher is powerful and very fast. I don't know if there is any better music dupe-killer currently on the market.

 

 

 

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Phelix is for Mac, friend. Do you have something similar for XP/Vista based computers?

I don't have at this time too much mp3 as I had about 97's-98's, but I remember the difficult to identify one of other because the songs were encoded at different bitrates, and I remember use a lot of shareware to try to remove all the mp3 files duplicated, and all of them was futile.

So if any of you have a real waveform file comparison -or something simmilar- for Windows computers, please, post here...

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This is an old thread now, but I'm searching for a Linux/Ubuntu tool to do the same thing, and can recommend a really good one for Windows

I found a really good (and free!) program for Windows called "SIMILARITY", which does as people have said about Phelix, in that it looks at the ID3 tags and filenames, but also "listens" to the music (it must do some sort of mathematical transformation on the files and detect approximate matches). Then it lists the results along with percentage matches for ID3/Filename, and "listening" match. You can sort by either, so if your filenames/ID3 tags are out of whack, you can see the listening matches. It lists in order of best match - you'll find some files with a 70% match for example which aren't really that similar. The main gripe I have with it is it doesn't list the bitrate, so you don't really want to delete from in the program, instead you need to go into Windows explorer to check out which is the one you want to delete. Still, pretty good program for something which costs $0.00

Any Linux/Ubuntu suggestions, please reply!

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