Comments on: How to Remove duplicate files from your iTunes media library

By: dan

dan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:42:39 +0000

unfortunatly i have 37 000 music files on itunes 22 000 of which are duplicates

By: Dadda

Dadda — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:43:03 +0000

What about a Boolean setting in iTunes preferences like rules in Mail: import ‘if’ AAC ‘and/or/not’ MP3 ‘and/or/not’ etc.
There you go Apple, a free feature for the next iteration.
I’ve tried a few dupe finders, currently using iDupe. It’s not very good with Track 1, Track 2, etc, deletetes the multiples even thought they are by different artists and vastly different sizes.

By: djsurreal

djsurreal — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:28:00 +0000

i tried this and clicked show duplicates then show all then shift file and clicked show exact duplicate and it came up with all the duplicates(both copies) so do i have to manually go through all 5000 and delete the duplicate?

By: John Anthony Robertson

John Anthony Robertson — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:03:00 +0000

Hehe ive got about 22000 dupes! try doing that manually! eekk!

By: Kellyvoet

Kellyvoet — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:59:00 +0000

Best solution so far – thanks!

By: Wide Angle Software

Wide Angle Software — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:49:00 +0000

Using iTunes’ own “show duplicates” option is extremely time consuming if you have a lot of duplicate tracks. Tune Sweeper is a good program to check out if you wish to take the pain out of finding and deleting duplicate and missing songs from your iTunes library.

By: Ronzoweaver

Ronzoweaver — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:25:00 +0000

Sam is the man no doubt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Grmarlow

Grmarlow — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:28:00 +0000

It would be a simple solution on Apple’s end to have iTunes run a hash analysis on the files to determine whether or not a file is unique . It’s either a duplicate or it’s not – why rely on file names? Generating hash values to determine duplicates is neither time consuming nor costly in terms of computer resources. .

By: guest

guest — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:52:00 +0000

QuickTime was developed by Apple in 1991 and has always been owned by Apple. iTunes was developed by Apple in 2001. Neither have been separate entities (although early iTunes was based on SoundJam).

By: Tezm

Tezm — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:52:00 +0000

my duplicate songs are in win media player..i did try itunes so it colud be connected,but its not from itunes i want them of.any ideas?