I love that AllDup is able to ignore the ID3 tags of MP3 files; that sets it above almost all other duplicate-file-finders , especially since it actually works (mostly, I've seen it miss some, particularly with damaged/incomplete tags)—I haven't tested it with other audio tags (ID2, APE, etc.)
However there are other metadata tags that can easily be changed and cause two otherwise identical files to appear to be different, especially since newer OSes like Windows 7 make it so easy to modify the tags. Here are a couple of common ones:
- Exif data for picture files like JPG
- Metadata for Microsoft Office (specifically Word) files
It would be great if AllDup could have an option to ignore them to weed out other duplicate multimedia files.
Thanks a lot.