Maybe I'm stupid, maybe Apple deleted this option - but I can no longer locate the "find duplicates" in the latest verion of iTunes
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 15" 2.3 GHZ Core i7
i have the exact same problem and it *****
Doug's Applescripts to the rescue…
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ♫ - dougscripts.com
'Dupin' or 'Dupin light' should help, donate if you like it, Doug does great work filling the holes Apple keep making.
donate if you like it
It's $7.99
I have both Dupin and Tuneup, but sometimes -particularly in playlists (I dump all my 5 star rated songs in one playlist), I want to manually look at the duplicates and decide what I want to do with them.
I may well go back to iTunes 10. I hope the database has not been updated.
I guess we will have to wait to see if Apple adds it back.
In the past, they have a blog and tell us about "How to Find the Duplicates In Your Music Library" in old version of iTunes, and we are so happy to use this because this is a part of the routine maintenence needs option.
And now? it just gone, hopfully, Apple iTunes team will notices this, and slove it issue as soon as they can ...
ekhome wrote:
And now? it just gone, hopfully, Apple iTunes team will notices this, and slove it issue as soon as they can ...
I don't think the developers get around to reading this forum, you will be better served by adding your thoughts to thier feedback.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
Apologies for saying Dupin lite was free, I must have been thinking about the older Applescript version.
Besides the simple desire to organize your iTunes, what do you do if you are working with iMatch. Occasionally I have gone over my 25,000 song limit. Of course, that means you can't add new songs (unless bought on iTunes). "Display Duplicate" is an important feature to help you get rid of the trash.
With other issues as well, it seems that it might be better to roll back to an earlier version.
I am in the process of rolling back. Eventually Apple may put back some of the useful features, like the eventually did with spotlight, but until then, I keep coming across annoying things one cannot do anymore.
For example, you can no longer open a separate window for a playlist – so one cannot drag song into it.
Also, until one figures out how to change it permanently, it always opens in cover flow, and one has to manually put the sidebars etc back.
Quite a flawed upgrade.
What is going on at Apple?
Timothy Holt wrote:
For example, you can no longer open a separate window for a playlist – so one cannot drag song into it.
Quite a flawed upgrade.
What is going on at Apple?
You can still add tracks to playlists, even when the sidebar is hidden. You simply have to start dragging the tracks, a list of places & playlists appears for you to drop the tracks into. I think this is less 'discoverable' but the feature is still there.
You can also show the sidebar via the view menu if you prefer.
Add a feature request for a preference to set the initial view after launch, otherwise Apple will never know anyone cares about it. Apple may just ignore it though.
Downgraded to Itunes 10.7.
Everything works again.
Discussion is here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4553695
It's just 3 easy steps, I think:
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