Duplicate songs

Does anyone know how to remove duplicate songs other than one by one? When I got my new computer, the Apple store transferred my songs over but it duplicated every song in my itunes library. I'd like to remove the duplicates. Thanks.

to take care of dupes:
How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
or
Araxis Find Duplicate Files (free trial)
or
Dupin (commercial)

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How do I get rid of duplicate songs on iPhone?

I have the iPhone 4 and with one of the recent updates, my iTunes changed. Now when my phone syncs with my iTunes library, it has a lot of duplicate songs showing up on the phone. I went through manually and deleted them off my phone, but then when syncing again recently, they were all put on there again. What can I do to get duplicates off there for good?

Settings > Music > Show All Music > Off
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Some of my songs are listed twice on my iPod itself. However, when I plug the iPod into my computer, the songs don't show up twice in iTunes when I click on device/music. How do I get rid of the duplicate songs on my iPod?

Some of my songs are listed twice on my iPod itself. However, when I plug the iPod into my computer, the songs don't show up twice in iTunes when I click on device/music. How do I get rid of the duplicate songs on my iPod?

that is odd! that should not be happening.
Are you syncing your songs right off of itunes itself? because it should be syncing over to the ipod however it is listed in itunes.

How do I delete duplicate songs from my iphone???

This is the 3rd iPhone I've lost, and now there are TONS of duplicate songs in my iTunes library.
How do I get rid of the duplicates so I can transfer them to my iphone? Please help! I'm not too tech savvy.
Thanks!

When you're looking at the "song" section of your iPhone, you want to swipe to the right on the song you wish to remove. A red button should pop up saying "delete". When you click that button, the song will no longer be there.

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.
tt2

How do I delete duplicate songs from my iphone 4s

I have tried re-syncing with my iTunes on my PC and it doesn't work. Just says "syncing" and quickly goes through the steps, and everything on the iphone is still the same. I can delete albums from my collection on my PC and they delete from the iphone, but the duplicate songs are not showing up on the PC and they are in the phone and I can't see any way to get rid of them without deleting the whole album from my collection.

I just had this happen when I wanted "normalized" music on my iPhone because I am no satisfied with sound check. All my songs still had different volumes. I turned off the cloud on my phone and added music with USB. I turned the cloud back on and I got the duplicate issue. Here is what I did to fix it:
Turn off Match on phone
Update match in iTunes from the "store" menu (see below for why this might be REALLY important.
Connect phone
Check "manually manage" in iTunes from the first tab when you click your phone in the left pane
Open the "tree" for you iPhone in iTunes by clicking the triangle.
Select "music" in that tree.
Delete all the Music from the phone.
Sync it.
Eject phone.
Turn match back on and download music via the iPhone but this takes a while.
or I just reconnected it, then went to the music tab for the phone ticked the sync option and checked the playlists I wanted. I synced it. I then made sure "manually manage" was checked in first tab, then went into the left pane and deleted the playlists. This leaves the music on the iPhone but not the playlists. I ejected and turned on match on the phone.
My guess is there is a glitch where identical playlists from the cloud seemed to conflict with the ones physically on the phone and / or iTunes match could not match the physical files on the phone. It seems my metadata for the files "seemed" different than the ones in the cloud. Running RealPlay gain on my library is suspect for my issue so if something happened on your computer that changed the data about your files even without you knowing, this might be the issue. It is merely a hypothesis but it seems logical. Resyncing match then putting the newly understood match on the phone seems to resolve my issue.

How do I delete duplicate songs

A while back I when I opened iTunes I was prompted to do something relating to how my library was organized. Unfortunatley I didn't read it very closely and just click OK and it began to duplicate almost every song in my library so now I have 3 copies of each song in each folder. Not sure what I did but it's taking up tons of space and I need to get it back to normal. Anyone have any ideas?

EN You could delete all duplicate songs manually or use a software who will do that (but they are often bad or spams...).
Sorry but i don't don't speak very well English...
FR Tu peux les supprimer à la main ou utiliser un logiciel mais ils sont souvent mauvais ou pleins de publicités...
Désolé mais je ne parle pas très bien anglais...

How do I delete duplicate songs, but keep a link in their original albums to the single copy of the song left, so it will play in each album in sequence as if it were still there?

Greetings!
After importing my 300 or so CDs into iTunes, I found I have tons of duplicate songs.
Example: I have a song that came in a original album, then in again in a "Greatest Hits" album, then again in a "Hits of the 80's" album, and again in a soundtrack album. I have now have 4 copies of the exact same song.
How do I delete duplicate songs, but keep a link in their original albums back to the single copy of the song left, so it will play in each album in sequence as if it were still there?
I don't think this currently exists, but as my library keeps growing the duplicates keep growing. It would be nice if Apple sees this and adds a way to link songs to multiple albums.
I don't want to create a custom playlist for every album that has a duplicate song or two (I'd have dozens of playlists) - thought about fixing it that way but not really practical.

To my knowledge, there is no way of doing what you want. The only workaround is to create playlists for the other albums containing the track, but that isn't practical for most people.
You could provide Apple with feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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,
-Jason

Duplicate songs in my 4S but not in iTunes.

I have duplicate songs in my iPhone 4S. But everything is normal in library. I have unchecked the "Sync Music" and then tried to syncronize. I thought that this would delete all songs from my iPhone, so after that I would add my songs again and I would have solved the problem. Syncronization was completed but only the HALF of the songs were deleted. I couldn't delete the other half from my iPhone. I checked the "Sync Music" again and tried to sync again. Nothing has changed. I deleted my whole iTunes library and resynced again, nothing has changed.
In the end, I had to delete every single song one by one (I had like hundreds of songs.) with this "slide to reveal the delete button" move. Many people have asked about this problem in this support community but no stuff has brought a soluotion so far. This is sad, really sad.
Note: These music files can be seemed and played in iPhone but they doesn't exist in iTunes, you can only see the proof of their existence at the bottom of the device summary section in iTunes, I mean the size indicators.
Note 2: The proof I mentioned about is dissappearing temporarily when I check or uncheck the "Sync Music" checkbox. But after the syncronization it's coming back.
Note 3: The problem has occured this time (Yes, it happened few times before.) while I was texting to a friend during syncronization of new music files.
Sorry for the language by the way.
Utku
Istanbul, Turkey

Are these songs that you've purchased directly from your iPhone? If so, sometimes they remain on your iPhone no matter what you do, so when you transfer them to your library and then later sync them to your iPhone, you're left with two copies of each song.
If these are iTunes purchases made directly to the iPhone, connect to iTunes and click on the "Music" tab where you set your iPhone's sync settings. At the bottom of this window, below Playlists, Genres, etc. there is a category "Manually added items". See if you have songs in there -- if you do, select them all and click "Remove" then re-sync your iPhone.
If you don't see songs in "Manually added items", go to Settings/ General/ Usage/ Music/ All Music and tap "Edit" and then tap the "-" sign to erase any music left on the iPhone. Then for good measure to a Reset (press and hold the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons until the Apple logo disappears, then release).
Another option may be to sign out of your iTunes account on your iPhone, then re-sync your iPhone. As a final option, do a Restore of your iPhone (first by re-loading your backup, and as a very last resort Restore again but without loading your backup, which means starting completely over with your iPhone).

HT2905 I have duplicate albums but no duplicate songs. One song showing in one album, the restof the songs in a duplicate album. How do I get them to merge into one album?

I have duplicate albums but no duplicate songs. One song showing in one album, the rest of the showing in a duplicate album. Album, artist, genre all identical. how can I get these albums to merge together into one album?

Change the album title to AlbumX, apply, then change back to Album. Repeat as necessary.
For deeper issues see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

I have 2 accounts in my family and would like to purchase some of the same songs for both accounts, however when I try to purchase a duplicate song from the second account the song says play instead of purchase. How can I get some of the same songs?

I have 2 accounts in my family and would like to purchase some of the same songs for both accounts, however when I try to purchase a duplicate song from the second account the song says play instead of purchase. How can I get some of the same songs?

Drrhythm2 wrote:
What's the best solution for this? I
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from her old compouter to /Music/ in her account on this new computer.

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.

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.

How do I find duplicate songs/files in iTunes 11?

How do I find duplicate songs/files in iTunes 11?
Earlier versions of iTunes had a simple menu option to click on.
All duplicates would then be listed. Cannot find this option now.
Regards ..... blayk.

If you want to free up your memory, maybe first checking to see if you got duplicates. -
From the File menu in iTunes, choose Show Duplicates. iTunes will then list all of the duplicate titles in your library.
If you delete a music in the iTunes folder, then when you try to play that particular music in your iTunes, it won't work as iTunes wouldn't be able to find it. However, when you import music on to your computer, always import straight into your iTunes, no where else.

How can you delete duplicate songs in total, not one at a time?

How can you delete duplicate songs in total, instead of the tedious task of one at a time. I have hundreds of duplicates.

Maybe:
Duplicate songs on my iPod Touch: Apple Support Communities
Have you looked at the previous discussions listed on the right side of this page under the heading "More Like This"?
Also maybe
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
I know this will work
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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