Confusing comparison results

[sirensynapse]

I run "compare" on two folders of nearly identical musical tracks and get tons of them the warez says need to move one way or the other.
But they are all apparently exactly the same, to the byte, and are just old copies of one another, in the first place.
What is wrong here?
Could it be noticing some tiny tag info differences? That's the only thing that could possibly have changed in some tracks. I may have edited some on one side and not the other.

[xCSxXenon]

I would guess the "date modified" data is different. If you hover over the middle section, it will tell you why it detected a change. The right icon will say what operation it will do, "copy right, copy left, etc", but immediately to the left it will say the reason

[therube]

To note: if there are tag info differences, then they cannot be exactly the same, byte to byte.

Some taggers may maintain the source file date, such that once the tag is changed, the date/size* of the source is untouched - even though the contents (byte to byte) therein has changed.


(*Size, assuming you didn't change/add ID types, causing the file size to actually change.)


Also note that some media players will go out, "on their own", & update tags (which then changes the file, & its' date/time).
(In days of old, WMP did that. No idea about current versions of WMP?)

[sirensynapse]

Maddening, I don't see in the settings how to get a basic scan, without meaningless minutae fucking it up.
Deleting this shit and will find another one. How stupid, to waste an hour scanning my slow drive to find this mess every time. Useless.

[xCSxXenon]

Works fine, your environment has underlying issues