Your program is amazing, but I have a suggestion
Posted: Mon May 01, 2023 2:42 am
This program is very well crafted, very professional, very well organized, very carefully designed to look good and work well.
You went through the trouble of making even every little detail as excellent as possible (it must have been a tremendous amount of work).
However, there are some flaws that are simply unbelievable, and seems to indicate a lack of total knowledge about the art of removing duplicate music files.
You guys simply don't provide a way to mark duplicate files based on the lower bitrate, just on file size, which is very inconvenient!
The reason is cause if you have thousands of duplicates, some of which are in a usual folder, and news ones that are in a new location,
it's best to keep the ones that are in the organized folder, and delete the news ones in the new folder, unless the bitrate of the new files is better.
If you do the dupe selection based on the file size, lots of new files that are only slightly larger than the old ones (randomly), but have the same bitrate, will be kept, and the usual files (that have been played before, had tags modified, etc.) will be deleted.
Luckily I can create programs in Python to organize my files, tags, attach images, etc., as I have a ton of files. But to dedupe your program is the best tool available, except for this oversight.
I will have to export the output to an excel file and then do my selection in Excel instead.
You went through the trouble of making even every little detail as excellent as possible (it must have been a tremendous amount of work).
However, there are some flaws that are simply unbelievable, and seems to indicate a lack of total knowledge about the art of removing duplicate music files.
You guys simply don't provide a way to mark duplicate files based on the lower bitrate, just on file size, which is very inconvenient!
The reason is cause if you have thousands of duplicates, some of which are in a usual folder, and news ones that are in a new location,
it's best to keep the ones that are in the organized folder, and delete the news ones in the new folder, unless the bitrate of the new files is better.
If you do the dupe selection based on the file size, lots of new files that are only slightly larger than the old ones (randomly), but have the same bitrate, will be kept, and the usual files (that have been played before, had tags modified, etc.) will be deleted.
Luckily I can create programs in Python to organize my files, tags, attach images, etc., as I have a ton of files. But to dedupe your program is the best tool available, except for this oversight.
I will have to export the output to an excel file and then do my selection in Excel instead.