I have a massive folder of drum oneshots that I have been collecting over the past few years. The file had grown enormously and there are tons of duplicate files in there. I'm a trap/hip hop producer and the drums I own are in this scope. Annoyingly, the drumkit companies (especially in the trap scene) love to steal from each other. For the most part, they will slightly alter the sounds to not make it too obvious, but basically all drumkits sound the same and there are HELLA duplicates everywhere.

I need a way to get rid of all duplicate files. For this reason, I went ahead and tried out three free duplicate file finder software but none of them did the job because they only look for file name matches. I need a program that does hash value comparison or something, an algorithm that actually checks the content of each file rather than just checking file names. If anyone knows a helpful program for this purpose I would very much appreciate if they can share! Thanks in advance.

 

If you have mac the best one around is tidy up 4! it can find duplicates even if the file is named something different. It looks into the data fork and resource fork of the files.

http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/TidyUp.html

 

I wasn't asking for people to send me the software, i was asking for software names of course

 

If sounds in different collections are modifications of other sounds, I'd say that file hashes are different, and not a good way to filter on.
Maybe look at software that can analyse sounds based on similarity, like Sononym: https://www.sononym.net

 

thats not any way to filter the content. hash algorithms are per design detecting changed data. even a single flipped bit gives a hash value that has nothing in common with the previous hash value. theres no way to get back from the hash to the (kind of) data, thats the point of hash algorithms. no chance to classify anything with hashes, only the 100% identity.

 

I don't think it is possible to detect similar sounds. I just need to find the exact duplicate sounds that have different names..

 

you don't keep the original archive files they came from?