Audio Dedupe

It's pretty difficult to keep your computer clean and tidy, not to mention your desktop. Movies, pictures and music galleries might have leftover or duplicate files when making new arrangements. Although not putting a lot of pressure on your system, duplicate files can take up some precious space and that's why Audio Dedupe wants to help you out in keeping a single instance of songs on your hard disk drive.

The main window is well-organized with a table that holds all identified files along with details like path, duration, bit and sample rate, file size, similarity, and a few more. Additional panels make sure functions are a mouse click away, as well as navigation which is enhanced by a dedicated explorer panel.

For the process to work you need to select at least a target directory. Corresponding options make the application also look in subfolders, exclude similar items from specific folders, configure the scan process, or simply ignore from check. Another method is to compare two directories according to custom criteria.

Regardless of your choice, you end up with detected files in the table mentioned above. If the target directory has auto-check enabled, different operations can be automatically performed. With careful configuration, the application takes care of duplicates with lower bitrate, shorter duration, smaller size, as well as date related options. Moreover, identical items can be deleted or moved to a new location while keeping folder structure intact.

If amongst the files there's a song you like, you can go ahead and play it thanks to built-in playback controls. A context menu entry lets you play it in the default application, open the containing folder, remove from list, or view properties.

File support is pretty decent, and songs need to be under formats like AAC, AIF, AC3, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, and a few more. ID3 tags are shown in a small panel attached to the integrated player, but they cannot be modified. What's more, you can save configurations to later on search for duplicate files by having the audio layer compared, the name, size, as well as ID3 tags.

Audio Dedupe is a practical application you might want to use when cleaning up your collection of songs, so that no duplicates are left over to take up precious disk space. The simple, intuitive design makes sure you don't have a hard time accommodating, while the overall process is easy to set up and trigger.