I had some faint hope that
Mediapurge would help tame my 25k music files collection, so I decided to give it a go, despite its portability shortcomings (more on this bellow).
Mediapurge bases itself in the so-called "
wizard" approach, guiding the user through a series of steps to reach the final goal.
On its most basic detection setting, it took roughly 15 minutes to scan my music folder residing in a secondary HDD and ended up spitting out a plain text report around 830kB long with full paths to files it considered duplicates, offering to further move them elsewhere (or more radically delete the whole lot).
After inspecting the report, I kindly declined to proceed any further without closer inspection. You see, the bulk of the collection is divided in individual folders named after artists and album titles with a few scattered grab-all folders alongside.
Mediapurge searched through all of them and found similar files in a lot of them but, and although they might be real duplicates, I'm not so keen on getting a bunch of albums with tracks missing in my repository. So
Mediapurge report is still valuable but only for long term analysis.
Getting down to the nitty-gritty of portability,
Mediapurge offers only an installer for download but it can easily (
Uni)extracted. I portabilized it with an
yaP launcher with the following configuration:
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; configuration file for yaP v0.7.1.5 (http://yap.rolandtoth.hu/)
; application name: Mediapurge
; version: v7.12
; website: http://www.peter-ebe.de/
[GENERAL]
application = App\Mediapurge.exe
; commandline =
; workdir =
[BEFORE]
dir = %APPDATA%\Mediapurge :: Data\AppData
...
After running such setup, I got a '
Mediapurge.ini' in the launcher '
Data\AppData' sub-folder, with some absolute paths that fortunately still worked when I changed them to be relative. (This is a required step for portability!)
Note that
Mediapurge relies on
FFmpeg as decoder/encoder, and for this to work portably, it is better to place a copy of '
ffmpeg.exe' in the '
App' sub-folder -- that way you won't have to worry with paths. Note also that the download link in the settings dialog is obsolete, please see our
FFmpeg topic for valid download sources.
Finally, note the unique
userid included in the INI file.
Mediapurge guides the user in 4/5 simple steps through any cleanup functions for your media files. Whether you want to edit tags, sort files on hard disc, find duplicates, create file names out of the media tags, edit tags and file names, sort files on hard disk, convert media files, search for duplicate files (full automatic, audio compare using acoustic finger print) and much more you will just need this one software.
Mediapurge last release (currently v7.12, no changelog) can be downloaded from
www.peter-ebe.de/Mediapurge/info/mediapurge_download_en.php.
Sigcheck '
Mediapurge.exe':
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Verified: Unsigned
Link date: 18:49 2020-09-30
Publisher: n/a
Company: Peter Lorenz
Description: Medienverwaltungssystem
Product: Mediapurge
Prod version: 7.0
File version: 7.12.0.0
MachineType: 64-bit
MD5: D74EC826E4EC9D832AC1B77CC12E5328
SHA1: 26C048C486E6E5E73D3CD1B7BB4A456494068AB0
SHA256: 53B9E8337B2AC0D5BCD55A21342C9484E849B48E06B325CA8F7607998C4974A2
VT detection: 0/76
VT link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/53b9e8337b2ac0d5bcd55a21342c9484e849b48e06b325ca8f7607998c4974a2/detection