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Delete duplicates in itunes after duplicates have been verified

I really need help deleting duplicates in itunes. I know how to get to the point of showing the duplicates in which I do have a lot of them. Tooo much to delet one by one. I guess that I am confused that If i selected all that it would delete all the songs including deleting the original song. Meaning not leaving any copy of the song in the library. I have been trying to figure this out. I was thinking that itune should be advance enough to tell when a song is imported that it is a duplicate song and notify one to disregard the song by choice. Things would be a lot easier! I know that my windows player would tell me if a song is duplicated so that I can stop it from being imported to the library. Please help! I have read different comments about third party apps but I'm not to sure what would be perfect to use and I feel that Apple should not leave an option that valuable up to a third party to create. Apple please up date itunes if this is a issues that can be resolved much easier and quicker for users. Thanks

Posted on Jan 23, 2014 11:13 PM

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Jan 24, 2014 6:25 AM in response to Paw_Phenommac

In 12+ years of using iTunes I have only once ended up producing duplicates. You shouldn't in the normal course of things.


In my opinion the best way to deal with duplicates is manually. For the reasons you outline, there is too much risk of deleting files that are not really duplicates. Sometimes you may actually want a duplicate entry, or somethign may appear as a duplicate but isn't really (e.g., a track that is on multiple albums).

How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905


Posts by turingtest2 about different types of duplicates and techniques - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555601 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3293239?answerId=16042406022#16042406022 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows)


http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)

Delete duplicates in itunes after duplicates have been verified

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