Is there a fast easy way to delete duplicate songs?

I recently transfered my library to my new computer. In the process I somehow added all the music and all of my playlists causing me to have many duplicate files. Is there a way to wipe out all the duplicates?

You could have a look at Teridon's iTunes Scripts, Robert has a script in there for dealing with duplicates which might be of some help: Teridon's iTunes for Windows Scripts

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Easy Way to Delete Duplicates?

Can someone please tell me if there's an easier way to delete duplicates in my iTunes Library than selecting each of them individually and removing them to the trash? I'm sure there is but I can't seem to get beyond having iTunes show me the duplicates.
Thanks,
Beth

Have a look at Doug's AppleScripts there are a couple of scripts there to help manage duplicates. Search the page for "Corral iTunes Dupes" and "Corral All dupes": Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
Doug also has a shareware application called Dupin specifically for managing duplicates, you can get it here: Dupin

I would like to know, on the ringtone page, where you can select songs out of your music library, is there a way to remove a song from the list after its selected? I would thin there would be a way to "delete" the songs from the list. (Clock app)

I would like to know, on the ringtone page, where you can select songs out of your music library, is there a way to remove a song from the list after its selected? I would thin there would be a way to "delete" the songs from the list. (Clock app)
Let me explain:
In the clock app for ios 6.0.2 I am a little confused. It allows you to go into your music library, and create a ringtone using any songs you choose. However, I cannot find a way to remove a song from this list, just like I cannot delete one of the preset ringtones (which I'm not trying to do, but just as an example)
Thanks for your time! If you need more information just ask.
(I believe both my iPod and iTunes are up to date)

I believe you just are able to delete them from iTunes.
Hope it will be helpful

Is there an automatic way of deleting duplicate songs

is there an automatic way of deleting duplicate songs

This is a easier way to delete, see this link, https://discussions.apple.com/message/1328323#1328323

What is the fastest way to delete duplicate songs?

I will spend hours deleting songs from the duplicate veiw unless someone has a faster way to delete duplicates.

Import the photos with your computer as with any other digitial camera. Most computer photo importing apps include an option to delete the photos from the camera after the import process is complete.
Or select Edit followed by selecting multiple photos that you want to delete followed by selecting Delete.

Is there not an easier way to find missing songs?

Is there a smarter way to find missing songs and albums besides having to go through each one individually? Some kind of batch process would be nice...
How do you guys efficiently find missing songs or albums?

don't you just love the way Apple answers your questions in this forum?

Easy way to remove duplicate songs

After a no of ITunes disasters (most of which I suspect were my fault) I have no ended up with a full library which has a lot of duplicates songs. Being an essentially lazy person is there an easier way to sort them rather than simply displaying the duplicates and deleting one by one

There is a duplicate removal script here:
http://mysite.verizon.net/teridon/itunesscripts/
I doesn't appear to have been tested with the latest itunes although it would probably work OK.
Always backup you files before doing this kind of thing in case you don't like the result.

Is there a quick, easy way to delete all the "lost" songs from my Library?

OK, I'm storing all my music in my iTunes folder, which I moved to an external HD. In my iTunes Library (within the application itself), there must be thousands of MP3s listed that I no longer have the MP3 files for. Is there a quick way to update the library so that it only lists what music I actually have on my HD? Basically, I want to get rid of all the songs that show up in my library which I no longer have on my HD. Is there any way to do that?
thanks!

Thank you for your reply Diane. I'll look into that site. I probably did delete all the files through the finder, but to be honest, I don't know how they all got into my Library to begin with. Is there a way to erase my whole list and then rebuild it based on what files are contained in my iTunes folder? that might be easier.

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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.

Help: there is a way to delete duplicate files in itune?

every time when im importing music on my itunes is storing the files in the itunes music folder. now i have to backup this folder and the size is more than 80GB. i found that there are many duplications of songs. is there any easy way to delete duplicate files and songs that are unchecked from itunes playlist?
thank you

Robert Jacobson has written a duplicate removal script which you can download here:
http://mysite.verizon.net/teridon/itunesscripts/
You imply that your duplicates are unchecked. You can create a playlist containing unchecked tracks. This would allow easy manual deletion.
You need two playlists.
First create a smart playlist called "checked" containing checked items:
Uncheck "Match the following rule"
Check "Match only checked items"
Live updating checked
Next create a playlist with the following rule:
Playlist is not checked.
Match only checked items not checked.
Live updating checked
This second playlist should have all your unchecked tracks in it.
Then you can use shift del to delete the tracks from you library.

Deleting duplicates songs on itunes

can someone please tell me an easier way to delete duplicate files besides manually deleting them one by one.

Open iTunes, go to "view", and click "show duplicates".
Then highlight the duplicates then select "edit/delete".
Or right click on highlighted files and select "delete".
There is a script for Windows that will do this.
iTunes scripts for Windows.
You might want to be careful when you do this because iTunes just looks for duplicate titles and doesn't check album or artist info.
If you're not careful, you may end up deleting a song that has the same title as another but is not in fact a duplicate. It may be a different artist or on another album entirely.
For example one song on a studio CD and another with the same title on a "live" or "greatest hits" CD.

HT201302 I have over 1000 photos in my camera roll, and I have saved them to my computer. Is there an easy way to delete some or all of them to clear out space on my iPhone?

I have over 1000 photos in my camera roll, and I have saved them to my computer. Is there an easy way to delete some or all of them to clear out space on my iPhone?

The quick way is when you imprort them to an app on your computer, usually there is the option to delete everything on the phone that was imported. If you declined that option, then you have to do it one by one or manualy select in edit mode.

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?

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

I have many duplicates of my pictures on iPhoto there an easy way to delete these?

I have many duplicates of my pictures on iphoto Is there an easy way to delete these, 23,000 pictures would take years to go through.

Where are you seeing these duplicates? In the iPhoto window or via the Finder? If it's the Finder then you don't have true duplicates. Each photo in iPhoto will have a minimum of two copies often three. Then there will be additional faces images for each photo.
If you truly seeing duplicates while viewing in the iPhoto window there are two apps, actually one app and one Applescript script, for finding and removing duplicate photos from iPhoto. They are:
Duplicate Annihilator
iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates
However, do not ever remove files from iPhoto using the Finder. That will corrupt the library.
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I there an easy way to delete photes from my iphone I have them all saved to iphoto

is there an easy way to delete photes from my iphone I have them all saved to iphoto

Photos in your camera roll? If so, launch Image Capture from your applications folder, connect your phone, highlight all the photos you want to delete, hit the delete key.

Is there a fast easy way to delete duplicate songs?

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