How to improve duplicate file finder?

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Euro skank
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How to improve duplicate file finder?

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Hi,

Great free program, already deleted over a thousand tunes of my 220+ GBs music collection on first go using your recommended settings. Thanks so much!

However, I can't seem to find the right setting for weeding out some remaining duplicates. As you may see from the Winamp library screenshot below I still have several similar copies of the same songs:- eg. 3 x 'Zu Fuss Extrawelt 6.00 mins in duration. Any tips please?
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Re: How to improve duplicate file finder?

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What comparision criteria did you used to find thousand of music dups?
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Re: How to improve duplicate file finder?

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Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me. I think I used the following comparison criteria...



23/05/2020 12:00:56 - AllDup 4.4.28
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - Search Method: File name (SmartMatch: 90%)
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 1.Source folder: C:\Users\euan7\Music
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - Option: Compare files from all source folders
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - Folder filter activated: 7
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - Filter type: Exclusive
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 1.folder filter: c:\windows
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 2.folder filter: c:\program files (x86)
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 3.folder filter: c:\program files
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 4.folder filter: ?:\system volume information
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 5.folder filter: ?:\recycled
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 6.folder filter: ?:\recycler
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - 7.folder filter: ?:\$recycle.bin
23/05/2020 12:00:56 - Determine file count of all source folders...
23/05/2020 12:00:57 - File count: 22,574
23/05/2020 12:00:57 - Scan: C:\Users\euan7\Music
23/05/2020 13:08:06 - Found 4,344 duplicates with a total of 44.75 GB inside folder 'C:\Users\euan7\Music'
23/05/2020 13:08:06 - Scanned files: 22,574
23/05/2020 13:08:06 - Groups: 2,022
23/05/2020 13:08:06 - File comparison count: 216,724,148
23/05/2020 13:08:06 - Duplicates: 4,344 (19%) (44.75 GB)
23/05/2020 13:08:06 - Elapsed time: 01:07:10
23/05/2020 13:12:58 - --------------------------------------------------
23/05/2020 13:12:58 - Action 'Move files to the Windows Recycle Bin' started.
23/05/2020 13:16:04 - Action 'Move files to the Windows Recycle Bin' complete.
23/05/2020 13:16:04 - Files moved to the Windows recycle bin: 2243 of 2243
23/05/2020 13:16:04 - Files removed from the search result: 2243
23/05/2020 13:19:47 - INFO: Unable to detect the VLC Media Player 32-bit version 3 on your system



Yet after deleting them there still seems to be quite a few dups (same duration with similar filename). Just wondering what you can recommend to filter out the remaining dups. Thanks.
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Re: How to improve duplicate file finder?

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You have to lower your match value or use another Algorithm to find more duplicates.
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Re: How to improve duplicate file finder?

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OK, I'll have a play around with the other algorithms.

Great program. I managed to get rid of a shit load of duplicates. Thanks again.
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