Features
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License:
Free to try; $19.00 to buy (Buy it now)
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Editor's Rating:
Not rated
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
7,041
- Requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
- Limitations:
500MB-size trial
- Date Added:
April 10, 2007
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Publisher's description of Phelix
Phelix identifies duplicate and similar-sounding songs by listening to your mp3 files and comparing the audio. Primary use is to free up memory being wasted on duplicates without being limited to data- or name-recognition. Phelix finds identical songs by "listening" to the sounds in the selected folders. Once a folder has been completely sound-catalogued, the user has the option of removing duplicates. By listening to the songs, Phelix also makes a separately compared table of similar-sounding music files. The uses of this near-match function are only limited by the user's imagination. In addition to audio recognition Phelix also matches other properties: tags, paths and data. This matcher has long tradition: is proven, fast, intelligent and with many options.
Version 1.17 includes user interface enhancements.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 8 votes
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Version: Phelix 1.1.7
"it's good. slow, but really useful"
Pros: it really works in analyzing songs as duplicates, and doesn't fall for simple id3 tag changes in MP3 files like iTunes/Winamp will. since it's checking each track against all of the others by using an audio fingerprint of the song, its far more accurate with mis-labelled music. that can be switched off to make it faster, just less accurate.
The scanning process chews up lots of CPU and takes it's time. so you'll be running it overnight on a large collection, but it does cache/store entries making rescanning for changes faster. i'd recommend it if you have a large collection or want to clean up duplicates easily.
Cons: Java makes this app slow at what it does, which chews up RAM and CPU usage. it can also crash if there's too many songs to compare. reducing the number of files to compare makes it run faster, but you can also edit the files to use more RAM/cache.
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Version: Phelix 1.1.7
Pros: Not that slow as people were saying. It is doing advanced analyzing so of course it is not super fast. It took about 40 minutes for almost 6000 songs. Not bad at all on one CPU core.
When I first started using it I loved it! It found about 120 songs that I had two similar versions or three similar versions. I went one by one to confirm the selections it made by listening to it for quality, checking the tags, etc. It is taking me so far about 3 hours of patience with the sun going down. I still have about 40 to go. I had been adding the songs I did not want to my Windows Media Player list and I decided to keep the selected songs in my "Now Playing" List that I did not want as a back up just in case Phelix crashes... guess what happened?
Cons: It crashed when I had about 40 more selections to go through! I would have cursed my head off and swore to never buy the program, but I am glad I had the songs I wanted to delete in my playlist and was able to delete them with Phelix "Not Responding" after a simple selection of a check box.
The program selected instrumental and non-instrumental versions of the same songs that have more than 5 seconds of difference and says there is less than a 5 second difference. This is why I went one-by-one to check. Make sure to do the same. I do not know if I trust this program to not crash now and will always back up the selections by adding the MP3 to a playlist.
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Version: Phelix 1.1.7
"Works well on well over 10,000 mp3's. Well worth it."
Pros: The software was easy to navigate and set up. It checks many databases to insure accurate results. It found many more duplicates then other programs.
Cons: Could do with some polishing. The interface looks a little outdated.
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Version: Phelix 1.1.7
"Perfect for HUGE collections"
Pros: I have tons of MP3s that I have tried previous taggers and pretty much destroyed the tags and even some filenames.
I found Phelix online after seeing how well acoustic fingerprint technology works after trying programs like MusicBrainz. Phelix has saved me from hours and hours of frustration with trying to listen to each song.
This program is WONDERFUL. Thank you to the makers!.
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Version: Phelix 1.1.7
Pros: Phelix could detect similar songs with different names, sizes, and tags!
Phelix is specialized in music files. Give the best for your music libraries. Btw, the 'listening' part is indeed important to detect clone musics.
I've tested this software. It really can detect similar musics with high accuracy. The only miss is that it failed to detect the similarity of multi language songs in my music library, which are:
- Melodies of Life (English)
- Melodies of Life (Japanese)
- Melodies of Life (instruments).
The first 20 seconds of those three songs are completely same, until the singer voice enters. Btw those three are the OST Final Fantasy IX :P
The remaining results are perfect; it succeed to detect more than twenty similar songs in my library.
Conclusion:
I am really satisfied with Phelix. For those who have a large collections of musics: download this app and try it!
Cons: None.
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