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Deleting Duplicate Songs in iTunes

Can someone pls advise me how to delete duplicate songs in my iTunes library, on a broad scale basis.

By way of background, I recently had my laptop "reimaged". This process required the installation of all new software on my computer. I then had to install a brand new copy of iTunes. Then, when I transferred my data from my external disc drive, all the songs loaded themselves into iTunes. However, when the dust settled, each song was in duplicate.

I know I can list the duplicate songs but can't see to how to delete each dup. I can do this manually for for 2500 songs, but I'm looking to do this more efficiently.

Thanks.

IBM Thinkpad, Windows XP, X41

Posted on Oct 4, 2006 11:39 AM

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Oct 11, 2006 9:19 AM in response to Swani

I understand that you have got to be careful deleting dulpicates as you might be deleting the wrong source file and loose your data..My itunes seem to duplicate mysteriously by itself and can't figure out why or how..I have been reluctant to delete duplicates for reasons above and no one has provided an answer to solve/address the problem of duplicates with iTunes..Very frustrating

Duel power PC 1 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Oct 16, 2006 7:07 PM in response to Swani

Can someone pls advise me how to delete duplicate
songs in my iTunes library, on a broad scale basis.

By way of background, I recently had my laptop
"reimaged". This process required the installation
of all new software on my computer. I then had to
install a brand new copy of iTunes. Then, when I
transferred my data from my external disc drive, all
the songs loaded themselves into iTunes. However,
when the dust settled, each song was in duplicate.

I know I can list the duplicate songs but can't see
to how to delete each dup. I can do this manually
for for 2500 songs, but I'm looking to do this more
efficiently.

Thanks.

Deleting Duplicate Songs in iTunes

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