MP3 compare tool

[Thomas Kaiser]

Hello

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Well, as a start just use the 'cmp' utility, which compares
> *any* file to any other file. Type 'man 1 cmp' at any
> command line. You just do
cmp does a binary compare. So, you can find any difference in the file. 
But with MP3s, is it more difficult. I have a song A which was ripped 
with a bitrate of 128 and I have a the song A with a different bitrate. 
These files will be different. So, cmp does not help much.

There is a tool in the windows world "Abee MP3 Duplicates Finder" which 
is supposed to compare the ID3 tags first and then check the contens of 
the MP3 and find duplicates. Unfortunatlly, this programm can not handle 
my huge archive. (and anyway I don't like to use windows programms).

So, I thought somebody in the Linux (Ububtu) community had already the 
same problem.

The tool should compare the ID3 tags and show me which files have 
similare ID3 tags, then I can check the properties of the files and 
decide which one I like to keep.

Regards and thanks,

Thomas