How do I remove duplicate titles from my iTunes?

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How do I remove duplicate titles from my iTunes?

I just downloaded and ran Gemini. It did a decent job of removing a few gigs worth of songs, yet I still have a double for every song title in my library. I think it means that I have one file and two titles linking to it from my iTunes. How do I remove the duplicate titles without having to manually remove all 180 gigs worth of songs one at a time?

OS X Yosemite

fully updated ITunes

3.2 GHz Intel Core i5

32 GB 1600MHz DDR3

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 32 GB of Ram 1600 MHz 3.2 GHz 27"

Posted on May 10, 2015 2:31 PM

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Answer 1

jeffd55

Community Specialist

May 12, 2015 12:51 PM in response to JediKitFisto

Hi JediKitFisto,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

I see you are looking to remove duplicates from your iTunes. The following article provides steps to removing duplicate items.

Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - Apple Support

Cheers,

Jeff D.

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Answer 2

JediKitFisto Author

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May 16, 2015 8:50 AM in response to jeffd55

Thanks Jeff, but I had already read this article before I posted the advice. It is way too labor intensive for what I'd like to do. Is there a way to either remove all the duplicates, or refresh my iTunes so that it only reads the songs that are on my drive? Maybe if there was a way to refresh iTunes, I would be able to remove how it's listing all of the songs twice.

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