Anyone know a program that...

[sumone 10+ year member]

will search for mp3 & ogg files on your hard drive & give a display of ONLY files that have similar info. I know I can get any dumb program & sort by title or filename or whatever, but this would show ALL files. I need to see only files that have similar tags (by similar, I specifically mean similar or almost similar titles).

my thing is I just moved up from 56k to DSL & since I'm still in awe of the speed of it, I've been downloading like a mug; basically trying to replace my crappy 128ks and down with better quality versions.

anyone know of one? In conclusion, a program that would search for mp3 & ogg files on your hard drive, and ONLY show files that have similar titles, together.

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[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

never heard of anything like that

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

or re encode....

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

ok here's the problem:

1. When I was on 56k (and before I actually started caring about quality), all I would download were single tracks at like 128kbs mp3.

2. Every new CD I rip, I encode at q5 ogg (about 160kbs...quality comparable to a 192kbs mp3). Sometimes if it's real music (aka not rap or R&B), I'll encode @ q6 ogg (~192kbs).

3. Now that I'm downloading full albums at bitrates no less than 192kbs mp3, tracks off these albums, I have individual tracks from the 56k days. But I always re-encode the 192kbs+ mp3 album to q5 ogg (160kbs)

4. I'm trying to find an easy way to find tracks that would show ones with similar info, so that I could delete the single 128kbs mp3 & keep the album ogg track.

So first off, the size of the files would be different since these are 128kbs & 160kbs files. Plus the file name of the 128kbs mp3s, I always stripped down to no spaces (replaced with underscores) & no punctuation characters. Album tracks, I leave them just how I get them from freedb or off the cd book. However, the ID3 tag of 128kbs mp3, I left it as it should be (in its entirety).

So really the only thing truly linking the 128kbs mp3s & 160kbs oggs are the tags, but again, won't be exactly alike.

All I'm trying to do is get rid of the duplicate files I have; out with the old, in with the new...

 

[RandyJ 10+ year member]

ok then, instead of sorting files by size, select view, details, and then click on the bitrate column, it iwll sort from ascending>descending or descending>ascending. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

Oh yeah, there's no internal support for OGG through Windows Explorer (AFAIK). It'll show MP3 tag & codec info fine, but not OGG. I mean, I can use foobar2000 to add all files in my library to the running playlist, & I can customize it to show bitrate info, but this is what my original plan is...unless I found a program that would search files & show you which ones are or almost are duplicates in terms of ID3 info.

 

[Brock 5,000+ posts]

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