Reviewer, 2009-07-13 11:00:00

The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder is a useful program that help you to find out and remove duplicate audio files with same or similar properties. It supports the audio formats MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WMA and is a multilingual shareware.

Features: The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder is a an application that can find duplicate music files. Files that have same or similar properties can be marked as duplicate. You can then remove them if you so wish. The program compares ID3 tag meta data, such as the artist name and the album name to determine if there`s a duplicate.In case such data is missing the application would try to determine the same from the track title.The criteria for determining duplicates can be adjusted by the user.Theses tweaks help you find a duplicate with some minor differences in the details. So even if a duplicate has some details misspelt, it will be caught easily.

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder support the most popular audio formats such as MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC and WMA. The search can specify multiple drives to be searched. You can also specify all the sub-folders be searched recursively when a folder is searched. While searches can be extended this way, it can also be restricted by various criteria. Exclude system files is one such setting so that you do not waste time searching backup files. These may be things like tracks with a particular date and size.You are able to save the search criteria as a preset and use it in searches in future.Duplicates found can be deleted of course but also moved to some other folder, copied or renamed. A list of duplicates also can be saved for processing later.

Overall: Quite a handy utility that is easy to use.