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Similarity 1.6.3
| Released: | 2011-12-23 | | License: | Freeware |
| Publisher: | GAR Software |
| Language: | English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish | | Platform: | Vista, Windows, Mobile | | Requirements: | Pentium 4 processor at 1500 MHz or higher with 256 MB RAM | | Install: | Install and Uninstall | | Downloads: | 684 |
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Publisher's Description:
Similarity - Similarity is a useful program that helps you to find and remove similar, duplicate musical files (MP3, WMA, OGG, MP4, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV) with the same or similar sound content, music tags (ID3,WMF,Vorbis). This is the best program where similarity of a sound part is checked, not just music tags or file content (byte to byte comparision). List of Changes:Version 1.6.3 from 2011-12-23Show all changesVersion 1.6.2 from 2011-09-07+ Tags method configuration added
+ Introduced new clicks detection mechanism
+ Fixed high contrast color scheme
- Fixed crashes Version 1.6.0 from 2011-05-29+ New multi-thread caching mechanism
+ Added OpenCL support
+ New activation mechanism with online and offline activation
+ Fully rewritten Microsoft Media Foundation Decoders (MMF)
- Removed Network, rewritten all remaining network algorithms Version 1.5.3 from 2011-01-20+ New decoder: Apple QuickTime (if you have installed iTunes, Similarity automatically can decode ALAC,AAC,MP4 files)
+ You can analyze duplicates for quality after scan
+ Analysis rating field added to Rearrange and Automark
+ Improvements in caching (rescan shows results much faster) Version 1.5.2 from 2010-11-02+ Selection of bad values in Analysis mode with red color
+ Crashes now contain information about what decoder is crashed
+ Additional keyboard shortcuts
+ Counter in analysis mode
+ Bug with 100% similarity precise algorithm fixed
+ Network improvments Version 1.5.1 from 2010-10-14+ Mini-spectrum in Analysis mode (Premium subscription)
+ Spectrum analysis (Premium subscription)
+ added folder group sorting on "Automark","Rearrange" (Premium subscription)
+ Fixes in VBR bitrate calculation Version 1.5.0 from 2010-09-24+ new Analysis mode (search unquality, problematic music)
+ some small bugs fixed Version 1.4.1 from 2010-09-03+ Premium subscription introduced
+ Duration test
+ Usability improvements
- Small fixes Version 1.3.7 from 2010-08-07+ New Similarity icon.
+ New decoders tab in options, you can now enable/disable decoders, set priority and extensions to them.
+ Some fixes in DirectShow decoder
+ By default we disable DirectShow decoder, if you need DirectShow decoder you can simply enable it. Version 1.3.6 from 2010-07-22+ Fully rewritten network protocol and network processing (still beta)
+ Tested tag sharing via proxies
+ Autoclose for servers
+ Minimize to tray in config
+ More statistics for network, enabled local rating Version 1.3.4 from 2010-07-03+ Greatly improved precise algorithm, it now consumes 20 times less memory (Similarity can now compare more than 200 000 files on computer with 2 Gb RAM)
- fixed some compartability and visual issues with Windows XP Version 1.3.3 from 2010-06-29+ Automarking mechanism
+ Autosaving/autoloading results and progress on exit and start
+ Grouped folders selection (only files from different groups compared)
+ Added Move to folder
+ Rearranging Version 1.3.1 from 2010-06-12+ New Direct Show decoder (Similarity can use any direct show filter like ffmpeg,ac3filte,haali and decode any supported by them format)
+ New Microsoft Media Foundation (MMF) decoder (natively support M4A,M4,AAC in Windows 7)
- removed ACM decoder (replaced by Direct Show) Version 1.3.0 from 2010-05-30New superior "precise" algorithm
Keyboard shortcuts
Network functionality
P2P tags sharing
New results showing mechanism
Results showing speed significantly improved
Estonian,Italian languages added
Some bugs fixed Version 1.1.0 from 2010-01-19+ Major changes in Results view (its now descending with columns)
+ Changes in folder view, added support for Windows 7 Libraries
+ Portable mode
+ Crash gathering and submitting mechanism Version 1.0.0 from 2009-11-17+ New tag editor (results tab)
+ Some improvements in comparing algorithm
+ Some visual improvements
- Many small visual/translation bugs fixed Version 0.9.360 from 2009-09-29+ New expermental algorithm (it outperform other algorithms)
+ Czech language added
- Many small visual/translation bugs fixed Version 0.9.350 from 2009-09-03+ MusePack (MPC,MP+,MPP) decoder added
+ 3 languages added (French,Spanish,Bosnian)
+ license file added
- Resample bug fixed
- WavePack decoder fixed Version 0.9.340 from 2009-08-26+ German translation added
+ Rewritten FLAC decoder (it now correctly show duration)
- fixed nasty bug with ACM decoder (that led to crash and not worked at all)
- fixed bug in comparer (that potentially could miss absolutely identical files) Version 0.9.335 from 2009-08-25+ multilanguage support (all phrases are translated)
- fixed some minor bugs Version 0.9.330 from 2009-07-22+ multilanguage support (not all phrases are translated)
+ Similarity can be translated in any language (in this moment english/russian)
- fixed some errors in tag editor Version 0.9.320 from 2009-07-15+ Tag Editor (MP3,WMA)
+ File to Tag, Tag to File renaming
+ some minor changes Version 0.9.310 from 2009-06-20+ own resampler, Similarity correctly works with all sample rates in OGG,FLAC,WM,APE now
+ with new resampler Similarity correctly works in Windows 7
- fixed bug with invalid cache loading
+ ignores stored in "ignores.list" text file, not in cache
+ separate sensivity for tags and content Version 0.9 from 2009-06-06- new GUI design (major GUI changes)
- acm decoder now support ID3v2 tags (as WMF decoder)
- working threads can be stopped or paused
- integrated tag editing mechanism (not yet completed)
- integrated crash logging mechanism
- new installer Version 0.8.2 from 2009-05-17- changed cache storage, it's now fully unicode
- you can now ignore pairs, they never showed again in list (ignores info stored in cache)
- corrected compatibility with screen resolution less 32bit
- fixed some issues with invalid flac's
- changed % showing mechanism Version 0.8.1 from 2009-05-09- added ogg support
- acm decoder info corrected
- window position stored
- issue with utf-8 tags in flac fixed Version 0.8 from 2009-05-05- visual improvements
- user interface improvements
- some bugs fixed
- fixed vista uac problems (cache.dat moved to 'appdata') Version 0.7 from 2008-07-04- suport APE,FLAC,WV
- decoders dll's
- decoders API
- new experemental algorithm
- some minor visual changes
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Latest User Reviews:
 Jandldunn
 2010-02-23 03:56:27
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Version: 1.1.0
I have hardly used it at this stage but so far so good
 JohnB
 2009-03-09 03:22:35
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Version: 0.71
safely sorting music files with Similarity
this program works very fast to sort through sound files looking for "similarity" in either content and tags or both (checkbox setting) the similarity can be set from 0 to 100%. I found 78% gave the best result, any lower and every Johny Cash or Mamas and Papas song matched every other song they made, (not sure what this says about the performance or my musical taste) anyways it weeded out every match, displayed file size and bitrate also matched mp3 with flac etc and I could make a sensible choice for each duplicate found, I could play both from the interface or delete one - not sure why but Media Monkey worked very well with it, VLC and others didn't work directly with the program - incidentally MMonkey displayed the true bitrates - I had a LOT of false bitrates reported within the files (mostly scrounged or stolen), saved lots of disk space and ended up with only the best quality rips for each song. The interface is not too polished but I didn't find any retails that could do what this FREE program does. Congrats to the programmer, I don't know how on earth it works, but it does superbly, thanks for making it available and good luck with retailing it in the future
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