Portable Duplicate Music Files Finder

Designed as the portable edition of Duplicate Music Files Finder, this small-sized and portable piece of software searches your computer to find duplicate audio files and remove them to make room for additional items. It comes in handy if you seek to clean your music files on iPod or other device, for instance.
The program comes packed with several advanced tools to create search rules to speed up the task. Nevertheless, even less experienced users can work with Duplicate Music Files Finder by applying its default configuration.

Portability advantages

Since there is no installation pack involved, you can save the program files in any part of the disk and just click the executable to run the app. Another possibility is to save Duplicate Music Files Finder to a USB flash disk or similar storage unit, to be able to run it on any PC with minimum effort and no previous installers.
Worth mentioning is that the utility does not create entries in the Windows registry or Start menu, thus leaving no traces behind after its removal.

Simple-to-use options with advanced settings

The GUI is represented by a regular frame with a well-structured layout, where you can get started by pointing out the folders you want to browse for audio files. When it comes to the comparison mode, Duplicate Music Files Finder can take into account the file names or size (exact matches only), CRC matches, or tailor-made options.

Customize the scanning behavior

Instead of scanning only audio tracks, the app can be asked to look for all types of files, regardless of their format. It can verify only directories while excluding subfolders, run with idle, low, normal, high or realtime priority, display the full path of files, mark as duplicates song files whose title is part of another file, and so on. Duplicates can be removed, or their files names or tags can be changed into something else.

Evaluation and conclusion

There were no type of issues in our tests, since Duplicate Music Files Finder did not hang, crash or pop up error messages. It has a good response time, supports hotkeys and carries out scan jobs in reasonable time while remaining light on system resources. Its interface could use some work in the visual department. Otherwise, Duplicate Music Files Finder is backed by numerous customization preferences and offers a quick solution to identifying and handling duplicates (music or otherwise).