Comparing different playlists in iTunes

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Comparing different playlists in iTunes

Does anyone know of a way to compare different playlist songs in iTunes?

I am trying to consolidate playlists created by the kids into one playlist. I don't want to create duplicate song entries as I drag all the songs of each playlist into the newly created consolidated list.

Any thoughts?

Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 5, 2007 11:07 AM

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Answer 1

Chris CA

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Aug 5, 2007 12:13 PM in response to knightvsbishop

See this -> Compare Two Playlists

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Answer 2

Aug 5, 2007 12:54 PM in response to knightvsbishop

I'm a bit confused (or maybe you are 😉 ). You're posting in the "iTunes for Windows" forum, but you list your OS as Mac OS X.

If Chris' answer works for you, great.

Otherwise, if you are using Windows, one option is to drag all the songs from one playlist into the other (creating some duplicates), then using a program I wrote to remove the dupes.
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/index.html#itunesremoveduplicates

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Answer 3

Aug 5, 2007 1:03 PM in response to knightvsbishop

Really fast and easy way to consolidate 2 or more playlists -

Create a new Smart Playlist set to:

Match (any) of the following rules
Playlist is (Playlist1) +
Playlist is (Playlist2)

If you want, you can then copy everthing in the Smart Playlist to a new standard playlist.

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Answer 4

Chris CA

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Aug 5, 2007 3:29 PM in response to Mike-N-nahyunil

*Really fast and easy way to consolidate 2 or more playlists*
DOH!
I was thinking of that but I couldn't figure it out because it was too simple...

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