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News / Version 1.0.0 released

« on: November 16, 2009, 19:22:39 »

Interesting date there for the 1.0 release ;-).

Good work, though!

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Bugs / Ignore very slow

« on: August 09, 2009, 13:56:40 »

I observe the same behavior here.

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Wishlist / Replaygain support / ignore loudness component in similarity computation

« on: August 09, 2009, 12:26:16 »

Currently, identical mp3's that differ only in loudness are not identified as identical (100% similar) by Similarity.

This is problematic since it reduces the accuracy of the similarity measurement: some files are less similar that they should be (those with amplification differences), and others are relatively more similar (those without such differences).

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Wishlist / Better support for meta-data reading (id3v2 + VBR + song-length).

« on: August 09, 2009, 12:23:03 »

Similarity currently mis-reads many tags.  It looks as if it does not currently support id3v2 tags at all?  Furthermore, it often reports an incorrect song-length, and does not correctly read the VBR bitrate.

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Wishlist / Open Source / Patch Submission

« on: August 05, 2009, 17:14:59 »

I take it you do not wish to open source the application itself?

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Wishlist / Open Source / Patch Submission

« on: August 01, 2009, 12:27:26 »

- support for identifying file "clusters" not just pairs (not that important, but would improve UI)

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Wishlist / Open Source / Patch Submission

« on: August 01, 2009, 12:26:21 »

Some of these features could be easily implemented by a third party; generally those that don't depend on intricacies of the similarity comparison algorithm.  I'd love to see the features, and I bet such a cool program would attract various coders to do some of the heavy lifting for you!

 - Multiselect (Shift-click + Ctrl-click to select)
 - Customizable preference filters with good defaults (based on file format, bitrate, file location regex, heuristic recognition files that are part of an album vs. singles, tagged rating or other)
 - auto cleanup based on heuristic defaults
 - correct VBR support (if needed, simply based on actual observed file size divided by length, as a workaround if real support is complex)
 - ogg vorbis support (and other formats)
 - When deleting one file of a pair, support for keeping the "best" file, but perhaps also moving it to the "best" location (i.e. keep higher bitrate version but move to location where it is part of an album)