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I would like to get help deleting duplicated songs, I do not know how they got their in the first place.
Windows 7
Some how I got duplicates of my library on iTunes and to get rid of all the new duplicates I went to the library I looked for the date the new duplicate songs were added to the library then I went to columns and where you see Artist, song,
bit rate, time, etc and added 'date added' once that's done click on the box enclosing 'date added' and you will see all songs added by date. Proceed to the last one of the songs with that date press command to highlight it then scroll all the way to the first song and press 'shift' to highlight all of the songs added on that date then simply press delete.
you will be asked if you want to delete these songs...That's it.
Ah, I seems your suggestion worked, I did a repair installation via control panel and everything seems to be working fine now, thank you very much.
Excellent. 🙂
tt2
Hi
OK - Checked, and they appear to be logical dupes.
i will dl your backup utility an give it a go!
thanks
Im afraid it hasnt worked, 😟 it appears to have deleted many songs that were not duplicates...
How do i use synctoy to restore?
thanks
hmmm im afraid there are only about 8 i tunes in my recycle bin...
5640 sounds about right.
shall i use File > Add Folder to Library > Select iTunes Media and add them all back in from itunes on ext HD?
OK....How do i scan for orphaned files?
Ok, adding now... it is converting some at same time. it may take some time i guess. will report back when something happens!
thanks for your continued help.
You're welcome. 🙂
tt2
No silver bullet I'm afraid. I guess you can import everything, run the Duplicate Song & Artist script, sort on date added and cream off the top...
tt2
No problem, thanks for taking the time to reply. 🙂
You're welcome. 🙂
tt2
At a guess it will be Option instead of Shift on a Mac. My scripts are for Windows, for Mac try Dupin or Dupin Lite from Doug's Scripts.
tt2
Unticked the cloud, trying it again... thank you for your extremely fas help, I'll keep you posted if does the trick...
tt2, thank you. That worked. In Danish it is "Sle&t"
how to delete duplicated songs all at one time?
