On Tue, 20 May 2008, Robin - Bartow FL wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eben King eben01@verizon.net
> To: slug@nks.net
> Sent: 5/19/08 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] finding duplicates
>
>> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Mike Branda wrote:
>>
>>> Eben King wrote:
>>>> If you have too many images, there is software out there that'll find
>>>> duplicates in your collection. (I've used it; it's decent; unfortunately,
>>>> it runs on that other OS). Is there anything similar for MP3s?
>>>
>>> I've used this before with success. It's GPL. Works by MD5 sum on any file
>>> type. However, it seems it's java .jar now and I have the .sh version.
>>>
>>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/duplifinder/
>>
>> An MD5 comparison only find exact bit-for-bit duplicates (supposedly). It
>> won't find transformations like a recode, or creation at a different
>> bitrate.
>
> The answer was better than the question
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facsimile
Yeah, I'm not looking to find exact copies. I can already do that, because
it's easy. I want it to find files that sound the same, disregarding
bitrate, volume, all that jazz.
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