Giveaway of the Day - Phelix

April 4, 2007This giveaway is not available any more.

Phelix is a new audio-matching program that identifies duplicate and similar-sounding songs by listening to music files with a selected folder and comparing the audio.

Phelix’s primary application is to free up computer memory being wasted on duplicate files without being limited to data- or name-recognition programs. The limitations of those programs are this. Data cataloguing programs are prone to interpretive errors; one artist may have many files data catalogued as identical. Name cataloguing will recognize files as being identical regardless of studio vs. remix vs. live differences.

Phelix finds identical files by “listening” to the sounds in the selected folder. 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 folder of similar-sounding data files. The uses of this near-match function are only limited by the user’s imagination.

To run Phelix, you must have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 for Windows (free) installed on your computer.

Terms and conditions

Please note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations: 1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.

THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY LAW, END USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE PRODUCT.

Highlights

• Duplicates with bad or missing music-tags but same or similar sound will be detected by acoustical audio matcher.
• Audio matcher is well tuned and represents a good compromise between performance speed, memory consumption, audio sensitivity and matcher robustness.
• Performance: 4 audio executions per seconds on AMD Opteron 270 (DualCore) in 1 thread mode, or 7 audio executions per seconds in 2 threads mode (memory consumption: approximately 40MB of RAM for 1000 songs).
• Classical music-tags matcher supports MP3 and OGG formats.
• Matching can operate in incremental mode. In this mode, user can work on so-far collected duplicates while the matcher processes are in progress.
• Program automatically chooses which duplicates will be moved out and which one will be kept. Decision is ruled by ‘keep-file-criteria’. Criteria is controlled by user and can include comparisons of: file type, file length, bit rate, song length, number of songs in folder and file creation time.
• User can manually overrule the program decisions.
• Program automatically detects distrusted groups of duplicates. Detection criteria is based on song length deviation and can be controlled by user.
• Achieved knowledge about the scanned music can be persistently saved in Phelix’s library repository. Stored information will be retrieved from repository when needed to skip the re-execution of jobs that have already been executed in previous runs of application.