1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
7:26 p.m.
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Once upon a time, I heard about win32 software that
was able to
compare pictures, IIRC later versions even sound files etc., to
identify duplicates even if they were not 100% identical (slighly
different pixel sizes, different data formats etc.).
This could be used to identify dupes in a larger media archive
(think pictures from your digicam, mp3/ogg collection, etc.).
Such functionality of course goes far beyond the current features
of fdups.
It's not 'beyond', in the sense of a possible evolution, it's a
completely different thing.
- fdups is _content-agnostic_ and seeks to find _identical_ files
- what you describe is _content-aware_ and seeks to find _similar_ files
Both can complement each other, but should stay different IMHO.
-pu