Duplicate songs in library
Hello I just installed ITunes and when it added my songs to my library it made duplicates of most of the songs, how do I get rid of the duplicates without going through and deleting each one individually. Also why did it make dups of most of my songs when it added them to the library?
Open iTunes, select Edit, Preferences, Advanced tab. Do you have a check (tick) in the box next to 'Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library'?
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Duplicate songs in Library. Program to remove?
I have been loading backed up songs to my new PC but it looks like I had about 800 saved twice and I loaded them up. Is there something I can run to remove the doubles? And yes I know about the show duplicates but I didn't want to click 800 songs. lol Thanks.
One of the forum members has written some scripts that can do this:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/
There are also programs such as iTsync
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What I do is highlight all the songs in my library and drag them all to my iPod. Before 7 it would update only the songs that were NOT on the iPod and ignore the ones that were. Well with 7.1 there are about 900 songs (out of 4,000) that with will copy over EVEN THOUGH they are on the iPod. The other 3,000 it ignores.
Any thoughts?[I'm thinking that I may have to just delete all duplicate songs in library
If you want. But some songs are different versions (Nirvana - Unplugged and Nevermind)
I simply select View -> Show duplicates. Then I uncheck one of them.
Open iTunes prefs -> iPod and select Update only checked songs.
This way I still have the entire album even if one the songs is off a different album.
b]I don't think I can just show all duplicate songs like I can in iTunes.
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How do you delete duplicate songs in your library without having to delete each song individually??
How do you delete duplicate songs in your library without having to delete each song individually?
mauijiminar wrote:
Go to iTunes, select view and click show duplicates. Hold control and A ( select all) and then delete.
Not a good idea! The "show duplicates" feature shows "all" duplicate tracks, but you only want to delete the "extra" copies, not the "originals".
I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background, including how to delete the extra tracks manually if you prefer.
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How do I delete duplicate songs from my library that have been automaticly downloaded from itunes?
How do you delete duplicate songs from an iphone 3gs? I did the automaticly download song feature when doawloading from my CPU and now there are 11 songs that no matter what I do will not come off my phone. I have tried everything. Also how do you shut off this automatic download feature?
Hello momoandfam,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Take a look at the article linked below, it’ll answer your questions about finding and deleting duplicate tracks in your iTunes library.
Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - Apple Support
Take care,
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If I've downloaded my music to an itunes library from an external hard drive and I have several duplicate songs, is there an easy way to delete the duplicate songs? Or, do I have to go through my entire library song by song to delete duplicates?
In iTunes, File>Display Duplicates
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How do i remove duplicate songs on my ipod and in my library
how do i remove duplicate songs on my ipod and in my library
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.
Fix the library, then syncing should fix the device.
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How can I remove duplicate songs from the iPhone4. The duplicates are not listed in the computer iTunes library.
The simplest thing may be to back-up and then restore the iPhone. If you don't fancy that then remove all media that is currently synced to it, then double check and manually remove any media that remains on the device, before reselecting your sync options.
If you've been manually managing the device and your library doesn't contain copies of all your media then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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Missing songs from playlists after sync
How did you clean up the duplicates? A playlist is an ordered list of references to tracks in iTunes. If you had duplicates in the library you may have added one version of a track to one playlist and the duplicate to a different list. When you remove the duplicate only the first list contains a reference to the song.
I have a script which would have eliminated duplicates while preserving playlist membership, and merging ratings, play & skip counts etc. More here: Re: When I delete duplicates how do I know which version is the original song and which is the duplicate? If restoring the playlists is important you may be able to restore a previous version of your main iTunes library,itl file that still has the uncorrupted playlists using the techniques in Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash and then run my script to dedupe. If you've updated iTunes regularly however, and don't have some other backup of the .itl, your most recent file is likely to be from last October.
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I my Itunes library from old laptop to my new laptop. When I transfered my itunes, they are now doubled in the library, with one song with a ! by it. Everytime I try to play that song it directs my to locate the song and it gives me a drop down menu. How do I end the duplicate songs on my computer?
Fairwind80As long as don't have any metadata attached to the broken files which you would like to preserve...
You could use iTunes Folder Watch with its option to "check for dead tracks on startup"
Or
Robert Jacobson's script itunes_remove_notfound
Or
Create a playlist called Found, select everything in Music and drag it into the Found playlist. Create a smart playlist called Lost matching All the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not Found. Your lost tracks will be in this playlist. You can delete them all with a Ctrl-A to select them and Shift-Delete to remove them.
You can then delete the Lost & Found playlists.
If there are ratings, play counts etc. attached to the broken links, but you've since reimported the files from another location then I have a script called FindTracks that could probably repair the broken links, and another called DeDuper that could dedupe and gather up the stats while preserving playlist membership etc.
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The previous version of Itunes had a function where I could identify duplicate songs in my iTUNES library. I cannot find this function in the new version of iTUNES.
Please advise where this is in the new version?The show duplicates/show exact duplicates features have been left out of iTunes 11. Rumor suggests they will be restored in the next build. In the meantime I have written two Windows scripts to make playlists of Duplicates and Exact Duplicates, either from a selection of tracks or the entire library.
If you want to manually remove duplicate tracks use shift-delete to remove selected tracks from the library as well as the playlist. 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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I am trying to delete duplicate songs in my library, when I go to edit to delete it, it asks me if I want to delete the playlist!
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 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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Anyone know why ios5 duplicates ALL my songs like 2-3 times in the music library> I have itouch 4g white
I'm curious if you had edited any of your songs (i.e. Genre, etc.) I have noticed that I have duplicates songs but it's only for songs that I changed something on. For example, I changed a song from Rock to Hard Rock and on my device I see it twice. When I click to expand the iPhone in iTunes, I look at Music and see the song twice - once for Rock and once for Hard Rock. But when I look at my Library in iTunes, I only see the song once.
I'm not sure why it's doing this, but only for songs I've bought since I upgraded. I bought these songs via iTunes on my PC, not from the device. -
Duplicate songs show in iTunes on device but not on actual device or in library
Today I discovered an unusual problem in iTunes. When I select my iPhone in iTunes and look at Music it shows duplicate songs with different purchase dates. All of the songs in question have the dotted circle next to them. But if I look at my actual iPhone they don't exist and they don't exist in my actual iTunes library on my computer. I have included a screenshot so you can see exactly what I am talking about. All of the songs with the circle have the same date 10/25/14.
Anyone have any idea of what is going on? And any solutions?After I unchecked sync music and removed all music this is what iTunes shows for my phone.
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How to delete duplicate/triplicate songs in library?
Hi,
I recently had to consolidate songs in multiple libraries and pc's into one master PC. I now have about 8 days of music in the new consolidated maer PC library. As it goes, the during the consolidation, I ended up with multiple copies of many songs in the same library.
How can I quickly remove duplicate songs in my libarary without having to check each one individually?
Help.I have done exactly the same thing. I now have a mixed bag of single, duplicate and triplicate song entries. I have gone through my Playlists and only checked the first copy of each entry but frankly, am not confident about selecting "delete". Can't do much harm to my dups and trips but feel that I could lose singles.
Is there any foolproof method to remove just the exyraneous copies.
Thanks
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