Anything faster than PerfectTunes to find audio file duplicates?

[alex5908]

Hello everybody,

How much time does it take to check for duplicates with PerfectTunes of a 4TB external drive filled with flacs?
I guess it will be a week non-stop. If so what is a faster progg with the same (or practically the same) efficiency?

[garym]

Hello everybody,

How much time does it take to check for duplicates with PerfectTunes of a 4TB external drive filled with flacs?
I guess it will be a week non-stop. If so what is a faster progg with the same (or practically the same) efficiency?

should only take a day. Unless the files are on a NAS. Are the files on a drive connected directly to the pc running perfecttunes. That is way faster.

[alex5908]

should only take a day. Unless the files are on a NAS. Are the files on a drive connected directly to the pc running perfecttunes. That is way faster.

24 hours is way too much. What will happen to the drive which is under tension for 24 hours non-stop?
About the question, I did not understand it. There's no other way to check for duplicates unless you assign the drive you want to check. Do you mean anything else?

[Dat Ei]

Locale drives are much faster than NAS drives. That's Gary's point.


Dat Ei

[alex5908]

OK, got it.
But still the question remains the same.
Is there anything faster than PerfectTunes to find audio file duplicates but effectively?

[garym]

OK, got it.
But still the question remains the same.
Is there anything faster than PerfectTunes to find audio file duplicates but effectively?

not that I am aware of.

[kryten100]

What garym said. 4TB is a LOT to sort through.

[garym]

What garym said. 4TB is a LOT to sort through.

Yep, I suspect this is about 300,000 tracks.....

[simbun]

Given they're all FLAC could you not just use "metaflac --show-md5sum" to generate a list of audio hashes for all your files and then dedupe that? Obviously that's not going to give you a fuzzy match like it appears PerfectTunes would, but I'd imagine it would be a lot quicker.

If you want complete duplicates (including tags) then md5sum will work there (although will obviously read the contents of every file).

[alex5908]

Given they're all FLAC could you not just use "metaflac --show-md5sum" to generate a list of audio hashes for all your files and then dedupe that? Obviously that's not going to give you a fuzzy match like it appears PerfectTunes would, but I'd imagine it would be a lot quicker.

If you want complete duplicates (including tags) then md5sum will work there (although will obviously read the contents of every file).

Thank you very much for the clue. I'll try it.