Over the years I have collected aprox. 10k MP3's. I have a friend that was over in IRAQ and through their internal netork he collected about 22k songs. Now here is the problem - he has a lot that I have and I have a lot that he doesn't so....Does anyone know of a program that will help me filter out all the duplicates? I've tired several programs and none seem to have the ability to find similar files. I'm looking for somthing that will compare size, ID3 tags, and file names.

 

There's a program called CloneCleanerLite, it's freeware. It compares file size, and file name, and a few other parameters, to decide it a file is a dupe. Even then YOU hafta decide if it's delete-worthy, so it's labor intensive. ALL of the files hafta be on the same drive, but NOT in the same folder, so it will find dupes ANYWHERE on your computer. It's thourough, but, as I said, labor entisive.

Some others (also freeware) I have, but haven't tried, are:
EasyCleaner_2.0
and
4DiskCleanFree
I have no idea how they work, or even IF they work, so use them at your own discretion.

 

Try what AWDaholic reccommended... not that I've used it but it's worth a shot. Also, Download.com or also known as C-Net could have something so you may want to browse around there.

 

I've looked around on all of those websites - I've tried about 5 different programs none give me what I am looking for - I havn't tried the one AWD suggested - I'll try it tonight and tell you how it goes.

 

CloneCleanerLite is t3h ****. it's what you want for sure. sometimes you have to mess with the parameters to filter how you want, (and it is laborious) but way worth it...