[Bug 133109] Duplicate Song Management

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------- Comment #5 from Alex Lancaster  2006-03-14 11:26 UTC -------
See this thread:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-March/thread.html#00021

for some discussion on the ML.  Specifically James "Doc" Livingston's
suggestions at: 

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-March/msg00022.html

> (duplicate detection) is [...] difficult, as detecting when one
> file is a duplicate of another is a hard problem. Some potential
> solutions are:

> * MD5 (or similar) summing of files. This will only detect *exact*
> duplicates, and not work if anything changes the file, such as editing
> tags.

> * Matching <duration, mime-type, artist/album/track>. Would work
> reasonably well - but not detect badly-tagged tracks, duplicates in
> different formats, or copies with extra leading/trailing silence.

> * Audio fingerprinting (e.g. musicbrainz). Fairly slow, but would work
> well. Also useful for implementing tag-lookup on audio files.


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