Post details of freeware that are found to be not portable here. Posts in the submissions forum relating to freeware found to be not portable should also be moved here.
Synopsis: This program can compare and find similar (duplicates) of musical files (MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV). The analysis is made on contents of a file, it is necessary to note that similarity of a sound part is checked, using various algorithms FFT, Wavelet, math statistics, i.e. this is not bit-by-bit comparison, and for that it is necessary for program to decode a musical file. Also the program can compare values of ID3, ASF tags and names of files. Feature of the program is that that it counts up a certain estimation of a file and does not demand constant presence of the carrier with a file, in other words for the analysis it is possible to specify files on time carriers of CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, flash, all of them will equally participate in comparison correctly. At present time the program is in beta-testing, it is given as "freeware".
Writes settings to: Registry
How to extract: Download the installer and extract using Universal Extractor to a folder of your choice. Select msi2xml extraction method. Copy all the files in "files" directory to a folder of your choice. Delete the remaining files. msi.xsl, Setup.xml, and streams. Launch SimilarityEXE.exe
Stealth: No
Unicode support: No?
License: Freeware
System Requirements: Win2k / WinXP / Win2003 / Vista
The settings are saved in the registry. You can maintain the settings by importing and exporting this registry key.
How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Copy all files (except unins000.exe and unins000.dat to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the application. Launch the program by double-clicking on NetSetMan.exe.
Reason not to copy and paste LOL
Also the fact that it writes settings to reg and applications folder use makes it less likely as a viable portable IMHO
How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Copy all files (except unins000.exe and unins000.dat to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the application. Launch the program by double-clicking on NetSetMan.exe.
Reason not to copy and paste LOL
Also the fact that it writes settings to reg and applications folder use makes it less likely as a viable portable IMHO
You caught me right before my edit.
It writes only to the registry, other stuff such as "cache.dat" is written where the application executable is located.
This program was updated a few days ago and it seemed like time to retry.
Some usage notes:
It runs a little slow in it's initial analysis but I don't expect that's something that can be fixed - it just takes time to analyze and compare.
The adjustable similarity values is really cool and has a lot of possible applications for finding duplications in both audio and images.
A fair number of features are pro-only but the program didn't seem to complain too often about that, save for the similarity % amounts, which I still don't fully understand
Steps:
1. Download MSI file and use 7zip to decompress
2. Launch Similarity.exe
Status: Not portable. Writes to: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming ... moved to Not Portable subforum.
License: Freemium. Not super clear on the comparison percentages being underneath the pro version status, but I wouldn't describe this as a demo.