you get what you pay for

I bought this app because I had what I thought was a BIG job, (a library that stretches back to nearly 50 years of music purchases in a variety of formats), that was just over 30% on a new machine, with what I estimated to be 40 - 55% duplicates, for a variety of reasons. I bought this first because of the price, five dollars as opposed to thirty dollars and up, and NONE, (not ONE), were explicit enough in their ads to tell me that they would do things they way that I wanted them to do it. This is simply an inventory function after all.

First off, this program is fairly intuitive, which is good because the documentation is what you see in the ads. It is S L O W. When it is deleting, it counts the tracks off as it goes. I am estimating about 30,000 to delete and I am watching a counter, starting with 1, and I have no trouble keeping up with the count. I don’t need a secure delete here, just get em in the trash.
You can only choose ONE parameter to sort by, (much like iTunes, so …..), but I would prefer it if these tunes were arranged by say, date, bit rate, length or whatever, instead of an all or nothing deal.

Finally, with a Quad-Core iMac, and 32GB of RAM, the software hangs frequently, and will not examine the whole library in one shot, (thank heaven I am only a third of the way installed). I figure that by the time I get everything currently on my drive scanned, I will have run the program at least six times, with a wait of probably three hours on each run, (assuming a common percentage of dupes every time).

This is a good idea, and I have no experience with the other products available, but it ain’t ready for prime time yet.

professor flashback about Song deDuper