Deleting multiple duplicates in itunes

Can Someone please tell me a way to delete hundreds of multiple files , songs in Itunes quickly instead of one at a time

I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
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How to delete multiple duplicates in itunes 11.2

I've seen lot's of people talking about the "Show exact duplicates" funtion, but I can't figure out how to make it work in 11.2. I have over 6,000 duplciates and need an easier way to delete them other than one by one. please help?

Apple's official advice is here... HT2905 - How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
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How do i delete multiple duplicates

How can i delete multiple duplicates in itunes? thanks

I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
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HT2905 Is there a way to automatically delete exact duplicates in iTunes 11

Has anyone found a way to automatically delete Exact Duplicates from iTunes 11. As I read the instructions, it can only be done by comparing the songs with the same title, making sure that it is the same album, etc. Then I have been going through the duplicates and pressing CTRL in Windows to select the next duplicate song to delete. I have a very large library and this is going to take hours.
I guess I didn't get the instructions correctly when I backed up my Library to move from an old laptop to a new one. I am going to have to go back and read those again because this brand new HP is having problems like the past few that I have received from HP. I will never recommend an HP Product, I can tell you that.
Thanks to all for reading this and I hope someone has an answer to automate it.

When deduping use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin. Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed)
See also HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library.
(Duplicate link)
If you still have the original library on the old laptop see this migrate iTunes library post. It may be easier and/or better to redo the transfer...
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How to delete multiple duplicates of multiple songs?

How to delete multiple duplicates of multiple songs from my library at the same time, rather than each individually?

Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See thisthread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning
to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
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How to delete multiple playlists from itunes

how to delete multiple playlists from itunes?

Have you subscribed to iTunes Match? There is a bug that can sometimes create hundreds of duplicate empty playlists. I've two scripts which might help you clean up: KillEmptyPlaylists and KillTopLevelPlaylists. This post describes a technique for resetting iTunes Match to stop it happening again.
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How do I delete multiple duplicates of songs in my playlist without doing one at a time. Windows 7 on HP. Lexmac

How do I delete multiple duplicate songs from my playlist without doing one at a time?
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I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
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What is the easiest way to delete multiple duplicate songs?

What is the easiest way to delete multiple duplicate songs?

1. Google it. You may find third party applications that do what you want.
2. Here is the link to an Apple discussion thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3721976?start=0&tstart=0
3. Backup before you do anything.

How to delete multiple duplicate playlists in iTunes match?

itunes created 1500 duplicates of my playlists.

Apple's official advice on duplicates is here: Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership, or that sometimes the same file can be represented by multiple entries in the library and that deleting one and recycling the file will break the other.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
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Delete multiple duplicates at once without selecting one at a time...

I know that you can view duplicates and then select songs one at a time to delete. Because show duplicates shows both the duplicate file and the original you need to select one duplicate and skip one for the original file for each duplicate song. The problem is I have 18000 songs so going through the duplicates one at a time like this will take way too long. How can I delete all of these duplicates without clicking on all of them one at a time?

You can select multiple items using shift to select a range and control to add or remove items from it.
Regarding duplciates, Apple's official advice is here... HT2905 - How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group of identical tracks to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin. This can happen, for example, if you start iTunes with a disconnected external drive, then connect it, reimport from your media folder, then restart iTunes.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping, whether you do so by hand or using my script, in case something goes wrong.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed)
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HT1349 how to delete multiple items in itunes

how to delete multiple items in itunes

I inported my music files and see that I have multiple copies on my files so now I have multiple copies in iTunes.
Some are multiples, some are duplicates, some are from different dates and some do not work and have the symbol for this.
Thus, I must be picky about which ones I delete.
Looks like I will have to continue deleting manually.

How can I delete multiple duplicate songs at one time? I would really like to wipe out my music library and just reinstall all files. Any Help is appreciated.

I am trying to cleanout my iTunes Music Library. I would prefer to wipeout the music library and then reinstall my music. I do not know how to delete multiple files besides doing one by one. Any help is much appreciated. Thank You.

Dupin is for Mac. For PC users I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
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Delete numerous duplicates in iTunes 11

I've looked through the other threads that are similar but am struggling to find an answer that will work for me.
I have just reimported all of my music files into itunes, i noticed that every file was duplicated in the finder but they were not showing up in itunes, instead of going through in finder and deleting every duplicate i thought it'd be easier to import everything into itunes and have it do it for me, now that i have done this i notice that display duplicates display's every single file, including original and duplicate so i can't just mass delete them with clicking each individual one.
Is there anywhere to have it only show one of the files and not both? The files are exactly the same and date added etc the same so cant sort this way.
Cheers
Rob

Use the Songs view. Hold down alt/option and use View > Show Exact Duplicate Items, sort the resulting list on Date Added, then delete the most recent additons, leaving the originals behind. Ideally you should take a complete backup of the current state of the library & media folder before you start just in case you select more files to delete than you should.
Oops, I've seen where you say the files have the same date added values... In that case you either need to manually select all but one of each repeating group to remove using CMD-clicks, or look to third party tools such as Dupin or Dupin Lite from Doug's Scripts.
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Delete all duplicates in iTunes at once

In iTunes 12.1.0.50 on a Mavericks iMac, how can I delete all duplicate songs at once?

Realize the link to which ChitlinsCC posted is in the iTunes for Windows forum. It mentions a script which will only work in Windows iTunes. I have not used it but the Dougscripts web site includes a tool for removing duplicates which works on Macs.
Do heed turingtest2's warnings about blindly removing duplicates. There are several kinds of duplicates and deleting some may result in both disappearing completely from your computer. I find in the normal course of things I generate only one or two duplicates per year. If you are finding many more then we need to review what is going on with your computer to generate all the extras.

HT1349 I want to delete many duplicates in itunes on my pc

i have threee of every song, two will play, i want to remove the duplictes and simplify my view. i know one path is to an external hard-drive that is linked to my itunes, but don't need 'cause its on my hard drive now, twice, apparently

I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
The current version doesn't handle missing files. These can either be deleted using a tool such as iTunes Folder Watch with its option to check for dead tracks on startup or repaired with my FindTracks script. Which approach you want to take depends on whether or not there are ratings/play counts/playlist memberships you want to merge into the tracks you are retaining.
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