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Wishlist / CBR vs. VBR indication

« on: August 06, 2010, 20:46:31 »

This is my biggest complaint at the moment (more will come later I'm sure    )  I just did a comparison and found two duplicates that had the same duration and the same names and the same tags and the same bit rate and were 99.9% for content. The only difference was one file length was only 75% of the second one. Playing them the difference in quality was obvious. The short one was recorded with a variable bit rate and the long one was a constant bit rate. A column for this would have been helpful.

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Bugs / Re: false 100% similarity

« on: August 06, 2010, 20:28:14 »

The first time I used the program I selected a small folder with about 100 tracks that I knew had no or not more than a couple of duplicates. The program found 22 supposed duplicates. The reason is these were mostly live performances and the first minute contained much applause.

I would suggest adding a criteria that the length must match within X%. If 2 tracks differ in length by more than 25% I find it hard to believe anyone would consider that similar but with a 0-100% option even people who would could have that option.  And, as someone else mentioned, eliminating duplicates by track length could significantly improve speed.

You might also want to consider using the second minute to reduce the false positives on live tracks.