Re: [Banshee-List] A Library Clean up Idea

["Dan Shryock" <dan shryock gmail com>]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Charles Mason <charlie mas gmail com> wrote:
> The other option is to use some form of Audio Finger Printing
> technology. It would be much slower but would also pick up some
> duplicates which are not from the same original and since it uses the
> decoded audio it would work with every music format banshee supports.
> I did a quick Google and couldn't find an Open Source one that could
> be used. The only possibility is Music Brainz but I am not sure if the
> right bit of there system is open source or not, its quite
> complicated.

I've been hoping that a feature like this would be implemented for a
while.  I have multiple copies of the same songs that have been ripped
at different qualities, and I would love for the option to audit my
duplicates and remove the lower quality copies.  So for my use, it
would definitely need to be an audio fingerprinting solution.  I
personally think that this would be a great plugin for banshee.
Unfortunately I also don't have any good ideas on how to organize the
ui for it, but a quick hack could be to add a column to the library
view for the fingerprint/hash/whatever, then you could easily sort on
it and see the duplicates that way.

Dan