Duplicated my entire music library by mistake
I don't know how I did it, but I somehow duplicated all my itunes songs in my library. I think I did something when I tried to put all my music into one library in Windows 7. How do I get rid of the duplicates without have to delete each song individually? Yikes!
from the horse's mouth: _*How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library*_.
for W7, there's this: _*http://www.araxis.com/find-duplicate-files/*_ (free trial).
JGG
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JemPocketJem wrote:
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