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Locate duplicate audio files

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder is a useful tool that lets you locate duplicate audio files on your PC.

If your music library is a total mess left over from the days of pre-iTunes online downloads, it's probably difficult to tell just what exactly is in your collection, let alone whether you have more than one of the same song file.

Your files might not be properly labeled or even start with the CD track number. These are all things that make sorting through your library to find duplicate files a bit of a pain.

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder searches for duplicate audio files, looking for those with the same or similar properties. It does this by analyzing the ID tags the audio files contains, specifically pertaining to the artist and title information. EF Duplicate MP3 Finder then compares that information to other audio file tags.

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder uses audio file names in the event that tag information is not available. EF Duplicate MP3 Finder allows you to adjust your search options to search for files with similar names instead of identical properties as well, which is useful if you think you have files where the artist or song title are spelled incorrectly. MP3 Ogg/Vorbis, WMA, and FLAC audio formats are all supported. Unfortunately, EF Duplicate MP3 Finder is missing support for several others like MPEG-4 and AAC.

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder is a competent little tool to help you quickly and effectively organize your audio file library.

Find out duplicate or similar MP3, iTunes, WMA, FLAC, OggVorbis files

The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder is a useful program that help you to find out and remove duplicate audio files with same or similar properties, files that occupy so unnecessarily storage place on your computer or your server.

In addition the program analyzes the artist and title information from the ID tags contained in the audio files and compares these with the appropriate entries in other files. If this informations are not present, it try to interpret it from the file names if possible. You can adjust individually if search for exact dupes or for similar files. In this way it is possible to identify similarly titles with smaller differences.

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder support the audio formats MP3, iTunes, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC and WMA.

The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder looks if desired in multiple drives or multiple paths for dupes and recurse in subfolders. Folders can be excluded from the search and various filter makes possible to limit the number of results e.g. according to the file date or the file size purposefully. Frequently used search options can be stored and been available as presetting then later at any time again. This function can be used to accelerate the search procedure. Also important system folders can be excluded from the search, so that system files are not even handled, i.e. Windows backups.

After the EF Duplicate MP3 Finder locked the search, he presents the dupes in a clear, polychrome list, found in accordance with the criteria selected before. The colored representation makes a simple and intuitive recognizing possible of similar files. They can now decide, what you would like to do with the found files. The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder supports you here among other things with functions for the deletion, copying, moving or renaming the entries. Or you can save the list of the dupes found for later processing. The formats HTML, CSV or as plain text are supported.

Multilingual.

Shareware

PROS

  • Locate all duplicate MP3 files quickly and effectively
  • Customize your duplicate file searches
  • Searches by artist and title tags

CONS

  • Interface isn't the sleekest
  • Support for some audio file formats missing

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