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Name: Similarity

Website: http://www.music-similarity.com/

Screenshot: http://www.music-similarity.com/ss2.png

Category Audio - Miscellaneous (4), Audio - Identification (2)

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\user\current\software\Almaz Gaifullin

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.

MiDoJo wrote:

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

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• 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