Sameness Percentage

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Sameness Percentage

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Sameness Percentage


Regular Mode, Ignore Content, it would be nice to at least know if particular duplicate sets (or members of a set) are 100% or what % of sameness.


I do ... Ignore Content, Same Name, Same Size on some MP3's.
It comes up with ...

/Lily Allen - Alright Still/ & /Lily Allen - Alright Still (2006)/

Same names, same sizes, same dates, yet the files are NOT identical, differing very slightly in their Tag data. (Not unusual for WMP to update a tag even if you tell it not to.) And if I didn't actually compare respective files, I would not have known. Had Duplicate Cleaner said, hey they're 98% the same, or even if it was just not indicated 100%, I would very easily surmised, oh, so some insignificant Tag difference.

And that same search also came up with ...

/Mike Oldfield/Mike Oldfield - The Platinum Collection/ & /Mike Oldfield/The Platinum Collection/

And those two WERE exactly the same, had them in there twice, different pathname, yet again without specifically comparing those two directories, for exactness, I wouldn't have known for sure that they were. So if Duplicate Cleaner said, 100%, then there would be no question :-).
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