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From, Help -> Duplicate folders

Key: *Empty folders may actually not be empty but contain files outside the scope of the scan.

(I'll just note that it worked on my end, en-US. On my end I had to go to 'Customize Format' to manually enter dd.MM.yyy because that was not one of the default layouts presented in 'Regions and Language' screen.) . DuplicateCleaner - date format ddMMYYYY.png @punar, Other then defaulting to Norwegi...

Compared with my A/V hasher (something I whipped up), & for as much as I understand (or don't understand) it, I'm getting results in seconds, compared to minutes for DC. The basic guts of it: for %%i in (%*) do (echo "%%~fi" & ffmpeg -v 4 -i "%%~i" -map 0 -c copy -f strea...

Other files are not compared.

The link shows where to find the settings, file types, where "Audio" is defined.

> But I thought with regular mode I would miss identical music files by audio data (without considering the tags)

It would (miss) if the tags were different.


> How would one "de-dupe in stages"?

Run Regular mode, Content first.
Then run Audio mode.

Much better.
Thank you .

(Doesn't belong here, but...)


Board Style/Theme - how to change?


Is there a way to do that?

I find it very hard to follow this (relatively) new board layout/style (liking the old style much better).

It will only take into account file types that are defined as "Audio / Music" (in Settings).

Rightmost icon on the "menu" bar (the gears) is, Settings.

Settings -> Presets -> Video.

Run a Regular Mode -> Same content search, first, on everything. That will weed out your dups, regardless of file type. After that, run a Audio Mode -> Match exact audio data, on your audio files. Match exact audio data (ignore tags) - Exact audio data is compared, ignoring tags. The audio must matc...