Similarity 0.9 build 310

Similarity 0.9 build 310 is an effective utility which helps you to find and remove similar, duplicate musical files (MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV) with the same or similar sound content, music tags (ID3,WMF,Vorbis).

This is the best program where similarity of a sound part is checked, not just music tags or file content (byte to byte comparision).

You may not realize how many duplicate music files you have on your computer, after numerous downloads from the Internet, or scattered over your home or corporate network. Duplicate files are in most cases redundant and unnecessary, so keeping them is merely a waste of valuable hard disk space. Your hard drives may be full of extra copies of audio files waiting to be removed. Similarity will help you reclaim your valuable disk space and organize your music collection.

Major Features:

1. Three powerful comparing algorithms (content based, tags based and experemental).
2. Support lossy formats: MP3, MP2, OGG, WMA, ASF.
3. Support lossless formats: FLAC, APE, WF, WMA.
4. Support ID3v1, ID3v2, ASF, WMA, Vorbis tags.
5. Find files with same sound content (not byte to byte comparison, using sound analyzing).
6. Very fast sound content scanning.
7. User friendly.
8. Works with removable media devices like USB, etc.
9. Search local PC and over network.
10. Find duplicate from a selected set of folders.
11. Show files tags and properties.
12. Results can be exported to playlist.

Enhancements:

• Own resampler, Similarity correctly works with all sample rates in OGG,FLAC,WM,APE now
• With new resampler Similarity correctly works in Windows 7
• Fixed bug with invalid cache loading
• Ignores stored in "ignores.list" text file, not in cache
• Separate sensitivity for tags and content
• Changed scores calculation mechanism
• Fixed bug with incorrect audio files, that showed them as similar to every file

Requirements:

• Windows 2000(*)/XP/2003/Vista
• Pentium III processor at 500 MHz or higher with 128 MB RAM