dupeGuru Music Edition Editor's Review

dupeGuru Music Edition is a file utility that allows you to search and delete the duplicate audio files that you have on your hard drive.

This application works in the same way as dupeGuru Picture Edition. It has the same easy to use interface, and a powerful engine as a backend. If you used any other dupeGuru application, you can't be stuck with this one.

Unlike dupeGuru Picture Edition, dupeGuru Music Edition is a faster application. In fact it was so fast that for proper testing I used the whole root partition of the Mac OS X filesystem. The results were delivered quite fast for a data volume like this.

The interface provides you quick access to the list of scan directories, some various functions, and a nice button which can start the whole scanning process. The 'Preferences' is also simple, and in provides just a few features which can customize the number of scan results.

With the report list you can do various actions such as moving, deleting or copying the duplicate files, or you can do tasks like opening the files with a selected application.

If you're looking for advanced features, then the application has them. For example the 'Actions' menu allows you to do a lot more than you can do from the interface and the contextual menus.

Pluses: it is quite easy to use, while it provides advanced functionality in the application's menus, it can find the duplicate files even though they were renamed.

Drawbacks / flaws:

In conclusion: if you have hundreds or thousands of audio files, this application can be a real helper in finding the duplicate items.

version reviewed: 5.3.0