How to Delete Duplicate Songs in iTunes 8

Hello hdomke,

Never noticed if this was on 7 or not, but when on your Library, click 'File', and you should get 'Show Duplicates'

You should be able to select and delete them from there.

IS there any way to automate it? I have over a thousand duplicates. Takes a while doing it one by one.

After it shows all duplicates, Go to "Edit" and then "select all" then just hit "delete" and their all gone!

When I click File > Show Duplicates it displays files in two's - meaning the one I want to keep AND the duplicate. Doing a Select All would delete ALL of them, duplicates and originals.

Is there an easy way to select every OTHER file?

Or am I just completely missing this???

hi,

you aren't missing this. Show duplicates is NOT a tool to allow to simply select all and hit deleted. It is showing you the duplicates, one beside the other, to allow you to discriminate two songs having the same name but that may not be duplicate. For exemple, they may be two different version of a same song and that you want to keep them. For this reason, automated process are somehow risky to loose also song that you want to keep.

however, if you still want to proceed with an automated script, you can find some at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/.

Personnally, I would still discriminate duplicated songs manually by reviewing the list of "show duplicate" to avoid deletion of song I wish to keep. I also have a quite large library and found many songs having the same name and not being duplicates.

DO NOT SELECT ALL. "Show Duplicates" displays all instances of duplicates--there is no distinction between "original" and "duplicate". If you Select and Delete all the tracks in the Show Duplicates window you are throwing the babies out with the bath water.

who would follow a young and clueless advice anyway... oups.