how to delete duplicated songs all at one time?
I would like to get help deleting duplicated songs, I do not know how they got their in the first place.
Windows 7
I agree. I think I just couldn't get your script to work. Thanks though!
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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.
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No worries, I'm glad you found an alternative solution. 🙂
tt2
ok thanks I'll remember this for future reference. But as for getting them back what should I do
Is there a line number associated with the error?
tt2
I think the FindTracks might work better if it only searched for song name and artist. Some of the album's are different (IE Greatest hits) and I think that's stopping some of the matching.
You're welcome. 🙂
I'm glad you got there in the end, though I would love to know what was tripping things up. 😕
tt2
Sorry for the delay. When using the FindTracks script are you pointing it at D:\Users\Michael\Music?
tt2
I Am. It fixed around 300-400 songs
Can you see any pattern to the tracks it won't fix? How many are we talking about?
tt2
How hard would the SyncStats tweak be?
1.Open the Music library in iTunes.
2. Sort your duplicate list.
3.Delete the duplicates.
All of them? Then there is nothing left! Do they go in the trash, or not? If it was easy nobody would bother asking, and nobody would get in a mess when they get it wrong.
tt2
SyncStats with that tweak worked.
929 were processed of which 874 were updated and 55 not found.
My VB isn't good, is there a way it can print the 55 missings?
I'm away from a computer for a couple of days (posting from an iPad) but some kind of log is a great idea. Might help with troubleshooting the other issue too.
tt2
I tried your deduper script and got the following error:
Line: 587
Char: 11
Error: Permission denied
Code: 800A0046
Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error
Any suggestions? Thanks!
how to delete duplicated songs all at one time?