[Rhythmbox-devel] Re: Feature Request: Show duplicates and showing thefile type (or extension)

[Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net>]

>>>>> "JL" == James Livingston  writes:

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 01:55 -0800, Benton Lam wrote:
>> One is an option to all the duplicates in the library, and the
>> other is that for each song entry, showing the song type
>> (i.e. encoder type), or even just the file extension is great.

JL> The second of those is the last part of bug 167659, and has some
JL> patches attached to the bug.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167659

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

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

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

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

Just to add to the discussion, there is also a bug on the duplicate
issue:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133109

Alex