MediaPurge - audio library tools

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MediaPurge - audio library tools

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Synopsis: Media file manager with a wizard function covering duplicate audio files, conversion, tags, and sync.

Steps: Download setup and extract using 7zip. Launch Mediapurge.exe

Status: Not portable. C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Mediapurge\Mediapurge.ini Version tested: 6.31

Languages: English and German

NOTES: doesn't include encoders and whatever instructions that were included in the help file to enable that were unfortunately in German.

Websites:

http://www.peter-ebe.de/Mediapurge/info ... oad_en.php#
https://www.downloadcrew.com/article/33410-mediapurge
https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Fi ... urge.shtml

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#2 Post by webfork »

Update: now at v.7.12 -- I couldn't find a changelog outside of Softpedia, which was in both German and English: https://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog ... 46722.html

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#3 Post by Midas »

I had some faint hope that Mediapurge would help tame my 25k music files collection, so I decided to give it a go, despite its portability shortcomings (more on this bellow).

Mediapurge bases itself in the so-called "wizard" approach, guiding the user through a series of steps to reach the final goal.

On its most basic detection setting, it took roughly 15 minutes to scan my music folder residing in a secondary HDD and ended up spitting out a plain text report around 830kB long with full paths to files it considered duplicates, offering to further move them elsewhere (or more radically delete the whole lot).

After inspecting the report, I kindly declined to proceed any further without closer inspection. You see, the bulk of the collection is divided in individual folders named after artists and album titles with a few scattered grab-all folders alongside. Mediapurge searched through all of them and found similar files in a lot of them but, and although they might be real duplicates, I'm not so keen on getting a bunch of albums with tracks missing in my repository. So Mediapurge report is still valuable but only for long term analysis.

Getting down to the nitty-gritty of portability, Mediapurge offers only an installer for download but it can easily (Uni)extracted. I portabilized it with an yaP launcher with the following configuration:

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; configuration file for yaP v0.7.1.5 (http://yap.rolandtoth.hu/)
; application name: Mediapurge
; version: v7.12
; website: http://www.peter-ebe.de/

[GENERAL]
application = App\Mediapurge.exe

; commandline = 
; workdir = 

[BEFORE]
dir = %APPDATA%\Mediapurge :: Data\AppData

...
After running such setup, I got a 'Mediapurge.ini' in the launcher 'Data\AppData' sub-folder, with some absolute paths that fortunately still worked when I changed them to be relative. (This is a required step for portability!)

Note that Mediapurge relies on FFmpeg as decoder/encoder, and for this to work portably, it is better to place a copy of 'ffmpeg.exe' in the 'App' sub-folder -- that way you won't have to worry with paths. Note also that the download link in the settings dialog is obsolete, please see our FFmpeg topic for valid download sources.

Finally, note the unique userid included in the INI file.
Mediapurge guides the user in 4/5 simple steps through any cleanup functions for your media files. Whether you want to edit tags, sort files on hard disc, find duplicates, create file names out of the media tags, edit tags and file names, sort files on hard disk, convert media files, search for duplicate files (full automatic, audio compare using acoustic finger print) and much more you will just need this one software.

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Mediapurge last release (currently v7.12, no changelog) can be downloaded from www.peter-ebe.de/Mediapurge/info/mediapurge_download_en.php.

Sigcheck 'Mediapurge.exe':

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Verified:	Unsigned
Link date:	18:49 2020-09-30
Publisher:	n/a
Company:	Peter Lorenz
Description:	Medienverwaltungssystem
Product:	Mediapurge
Prod version:	7.0
File version:	7.12.0.0
MachineType:	64-bit
MD5:	D74EC826E4EC9D832AC1B77CC12E5328
SHA1:	26C048C486E6E5E73D3CD1B7BB4A456494068AB0
SHA256:	53B9E8337B2AC0D5BCD55A21342C9484E849B48E06B325CA8F7607998C4974A2
VT detection:	0/76
VT link:	https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/53b9e8337b2ac0d5bcd55a21342c9484e849b48e06b325ca8f7607998c4974a2/detection

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Re: MediaPurge - audio library tools

#4 Post by webfork »

Mediapurge searched through all of them and found similar files in a lot of them but, and although they might be real duplicates, I'm not so keen on getting a bunch of albums with tracks missing in my repository. So Mediapurge report is still valuable but only for long term analysis.
Very interesting, thanks for that. I have a similar setup and would likely have come to a similar conclusion.

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#5 Post by Midas »

NOTE: yaP config updated ("file" directive replaced with "dir" and paths edited accordingly); while it was working alright, there were other items at '%APPDATA%\Mediapurge' that sliped my attention and weren't being backed up (remaining as traces of program execution).

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#6 Post by mp3freak »

Finally, note the unique userid included in the INI file.
Never mind. userid is generated for use at manual feedback and crash report. (matching reports form same user)
Not used at normal operation.

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#7 Post by mp3freak »

webfork wrote: Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:39 pm Steps: Download setup and extract using 7zip. Launch Mediapurge.exe
Status: Not portable. C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Mediapurge\Mediapurge.ini Version tested: 6.31
There is an portable version
https://www.peter-ebe.de/Mediapurge/Med ... rtable.exe
- no installation needed
- all data ist stored in DATA Subdirectory whereever mediapurge_portable is started

Happy testing :D

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mp3freak wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:32 pm There is an portable version
I couldn't find that anywhere on the site -- where did you find that?

I suppose it doesn't matter, I was just hoping this was something the developer was actively maintaining and not a one off done for an old version.

Either way, thanks for the update.

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#9 Post by Midas »

Mediapurge portable version (v7.14) GUI started fully in German -- I was unable to find a way to change it back to English. Testing aborted...

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#10 Post by mp3freak »

I couldn't find that anywhere on the site -- where did you find that? (..)
I was just hoping this was something the developer was actively maintaining
yea, on active development, portable version will be updated with every release

official facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/Medienverwaltu ... 422734488/
product history: http://www.peter-ebe.de/Mediapurge/history.php
(both german)

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Mediapurge portable version (v7.14) GUI started fully in German
standby...

edit:
redownload portable, same link from official website
http://www.peter-ebe.de/Mediapurge/Medi ... rtable.exe
english ressourcefile now included

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