Duplicate songs in Itunes.....
somehow my songs have all been duplicated in Itunes. how do i delete the duplicated songs without doing one at a time ?
You can view your library by Date Added. Sometimes sorting things by Date Added can show a bunch of songs that got added at the same time and are duplicates.
Or follow the steps in this Apple article
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1417
Make sure to read the +Tip: To speed up the process of deleting duplicates+ ....
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How to Delete Duplicate Songs in iTunes 8
Is there an easy way to delete duplicate songs in iTunes 8?
A friend of mine with a large CD collection and I share music. The trouble is that in the process of exchanging music we have created quite a number of duplicates.
Is there a way to automate identifying and removing duplicate songs?hi,
you aren't missing this. Show duplicates is NOT a tool to allow to simply select all and hit deleted. It is showing you the duplicates, one beside the other, to allow you to discriminate two songs having the same name but that may not be duplicate. For exemple, they may be two different version of a same song and that you want to keep them. For this reason, automated process are somehow risky to loose also song that you want to keep.
however, if you still want to proceed with an automated script, you can find some at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/.
Personnally, I would still discriminate duplicated songs manually by reviewing the list of "show duplicate" to avoid deletion of song I wish to keep. I also have a quite large library and found many songs having the same name and not being duplicates. -
i tried to delete all of my duplicate songs in iTunes and it deleted all of my music. Is there a way i get my music back?
From the backup you maintain in case something drastic happens to your collection as it surely will when your drive crashes, the computer is stolen, etc.?
Are the files in the trash? I don't let iTunes manage my music so when I delete a track I have to hunt down the file, drag it to the trash, and empty the trash in order to get rid of it. I don't know how iTunes does it for others. -
How to remove duplicate songs in iTunes?
Please advise me how to remove duplicate songs in iTunes? Thank you
THIS is how you remove them, Once you done this...Press and Hold Command on All Music and then Delete and your Done.
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Should I remove duplicate songs from itunes before connecting new ipad2
Bought new iPad2. New to Apple. Have to connect to iTunes. Should I remove all duplicate songs from iTunes first, before connecting new iPad 2?
Download the zip, and run the program you find: http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2006/01/31/easier-to-use-itunes-scripts/
If you're leery and want more references, do a search for "Quickscripts" and you'll see what people have to say about it!
Good luck! -
Is there a way to "merge" duplicate songs in iTunes 11?
Turns out I have numerous duplicate songs in iTunes (which has been problematic for iCloud). I'm only finding one way to handle them: delete them manually. However, if I do this, it also deletes the song from any Playlist the song's in.
Is there a way to "merge" any dupes, so that my Playlists will remain intact?
Thanks.Here's a way to do what you're trying to do:
Control-click on one of the duplicate songs. Scroll down and look under "Add to Playlist". There may be a "Show in Playlist" entry there. If there is, that song is in at least one playlist (which you can see by clicking the right arrow). If there is no "Show in Playlist" entry, that song is not in a playlist. -
How can I view duplicate songs in iTunes 11?
How can I view duplicate songs in iTunes 11?
If needed press ctrl-b to reveal the menu bar. Use Shift-View > Show Exact Duplicates to reveal the duplicates. Keep one of each repeated group of files and don't send to the recycle bin unless you are sure that there are multiple files on the disc as opposed to multiple entries to the same file.
There is also my DeDuper script if you don't want to do it by hand. This can preserve ratings, play counts, playlist membership, etc. which are lost in a manual clean up. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping. See this thread for background on deduping and the script.
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How to delete all duplicate songs in Itunes in one step?
How to delete all duplicate songs in Itunes in one step?
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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How can I delete duplicate songs in Itunes ?
How can i delete duplicate songs in Itunes ?
I have the same problem, where my music library shows duplicates of just about everything I put in iTunes now. It began about a month ago. As far as looking at Date Added, well they are duplicates all put on at the same time. It isn't a matter of the title showing up later, or my having accidentally added the same song twice (say, from different sources or compilations). This is a problem with Apple I think because it just began a month ago and I changed no settings, nor did I do anything else. It just began to happen out of the blue. Anyone know about this?
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How can delete duplicate songs in itunes
how can i delete duplicate songs in iTunes?
I have the same problem, where my music library shows duplicates of just about everything I put in iTunes now. It began about a month ago. As far as looking at Date Added, well they are duplicates all put on at the same time. It isn't a matter of the title showing up later, or my having accidentally added the same song twice (say, from different sources or compilations). This is a problem with Apple I think because it just began a month ago and I changed no settings, nor did I do anything else. It just began to happen out of the blue. Anyone know about this?
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I am trying to delete duplicate songs in iTunes library. How can I tell which ones were iTunes purchases and which ones I ripped from CD's.
If you turn on the Kind column your purchases will read Purchased AAC audio file or Protected AAC audio file.
BTW I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
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I am trying to delete duplicate songs in itunes but the delete button cannot be activated.Any advice please?
It is possible that the files are read only or you do not have permission to delete for the music folder in Windows.
If you go into Get Info for a track, will it let you edit? If not it is probably one of the above. -
How to delete duplicate songs on itunes
how do you delte duplicate songs on itunes?
no need to use any script, no need to pay "duplicate cleaner apps".. duplicates appears on your iTunes folder or where you pointed ... Open your music folder where you located them, you can see duplicated items... for example "Hells Bells.mp3" and duplicated one "Hells Bells 1.mp3" and the other duplicated one "Hells Bells 2.mp3"...
just cmd+space and search 1.mp3...
Choose "Show all in finder" ...
Choose all of duplicated mp3 items...
Delete them.
If there is more than one or two duplicate, go ahead.. search for 2.mp3 or 3.mp3... choose duplicated items.. delete them..
Tadaaa... -
How to find duplicate song in "itunes 11" ?
How to find duplicate song in "itunes 11" ? - Why apple delete this function ?
Your response is not clear. Are you referring to Apple's lack of information?
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How to remove duplicate songs from Itunes
I've consolidates my music in Itunes 11.01. Playlists are just getting crazy with duplicates.
I want to eliminate duplicate music files, as well as eliminate the references in the interface.
Then sync my new IPad.
When I manually erase a duplicate in Windows Explorer, I'm left with a "!" indication in Itunes that the file cannot be found... duh.
I want to find either an easier way to eliminate duplicates without Windows Explorer, or
a way to select all the "!" references in Itunes interface and delete.
Help please from a completely organized person who hates Apples "intelligence" at thinking it knows what I want, and not providing
adequate help under "remove duplicates" in its help index.
Thanks.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/message/16042406 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows).
May 2014 post on iCloud duplicates - https://discussions.apple.com/message/25867873
Show exact duplicates (Mac and Windows) - https://discussions.apple.com/message/16951281
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)
iTunes Duplicate Song Manager - http://sourceforge.net/projects/itunesdsm/
http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_me/
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/tunesweeper/index.php
http://www.araxis.com/find-duplicate-files (commercial, free trial) - finds duplicate files on computer, not specifically iTunes
I would do it manually. As you can see from turingtest2's post, some duplicates are not really duplicates.
I would also review how you add media to iTunes. It should not be producing all that many duplicates. -
Ipod nano has duplicate songs but itunes does not
I have been routinely deleting the duplicate songs from the music folder in itunes however, when I have synchronized my ipod nano second generation with itunes I am seeing many duplicate song titles on the ipod song list. Would it help if I deleted the songs from the ipod and downloaded them again from itunes? The only other reason for this is that when I am asked to delete certain songs I have chosen to send them to a recycle bin somewhere
Dell 8100 Windows XPA spelling or punctuation mistake, or sometimes a trailing space usually causes this after the artists and/or song name, which fools the iPod into thinking that there are two different artists or songs. The trailing space is the hardest to spot.
Best way to cure this is to go into iTunes, highlight that artist and/or songs, right click on them and select "get info".
This brings up the multiple song info window. In the artist or song box retype the name, as you would like it, and then click ok. Do this even if no mistakes are immediately visible.
Re sync this new artist/song info to your iPod.
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