Tip for dealing with duplicates

Ok we all know it's a big pain in the *** when you get duplicate songs and need to get rid of the duplicates. Especially when you have a LARGE collection like I do.
iTunes clearly has some big shortcoming when detecting and working with duplicates. A lot of the time it'll find stuff that isn't actually a duplicate.
I have some songs that are named the same even though they're not the same song. (Remixes or legitimate duplicates from a "best of..." album or something.)
So I can't just "show duplicates" and delete every other entry indiscriminately. I need a way to go through the list at my leisure (possibly in multiple sittings over several days.) and review all the stuff before I delete it.
Here's a method that makes things easier.
1. Make sure that all your songs have a star rating of at least 1 star. (I default all new songs to my library as 3 stars when importing to itunes and then I raise or lower the stars from my ipod when I listen to them.) If you haven't kept track of your song ratings yet. Give them all a 3 star rating now. The star rating will be used later to select your files to delete.
2. Select your music folder and then select "View/Show Duplicates"
3. From the resulting list, select all songs (Ctrl-A) and then click "File/New Playlist from Selection" Name your new playlist "Suspect dupes" or something
4. Configure your playlist view like this..
* Cover flow on and "View Artwork" on (Selected Item). (You don't want to delete the song with the cover and keep a version with no cover.)
* Make sure you have the following columns visible: Sample rate, Bit rate, Time, Size, Disc #, Track #, Artist, Album, and My Rating. You'll need these to compare the songs.
We now have a playlist which we can refer back to at any time.
Now... If you were to delete files here in this playlist view, all you'd be doing is deleting them from the playlist, and not from your library which is what we want to do.
So...
5. Go back to your library view (Making sure that you've clicked the "Show All" button at the bottom of the window so you're not just seeing the duplicates any more.)
6. Select all the songs in your library (Ctrl-A) and then right mouse button click on the songs and select "Uncheck selection" Which will uncheck every song you have.
7. Go back to your "Suspect dupes" playlist. Everything will be unchecked now. Anything you check while viewing this "Suspect Dupes" playlist will also be checked when you go back to viewing your main library.
8. Here's the tedious part. Go through your "Suspect Dupes" playlist and double click and comparing each potential duplicate. When you find a genuine duplicate that you want to get rid of, Click the box to check the song. Your selections will stay checked even if you close itunes and come back to it another day! (I've been working on my collection for a week now.)
9. When you've finished checking all the ones which are songs you want to get rid of, Go back to the top of the "Suspect Dupes" playlist and scroll through it while Ctrl-Clicking each checked song that's there to highlight the ones you want to get rid of.
10. Once they're all highlighted select "File/New Playlist From Selection" and name the resulting playlist "Delete me" or something. Highlight all the songs in the "Delete me" playlist and then right mouse button click on the songs and select "My Rating/None"
(We do this so that we have a way to recognize these songs when viewing the main library list which is where we can actually physically delete the files to the Recycle Bin from.)
11. Go back to your library view and sort your list by ratings. Highlight all the songs there with a rating of None and then right click to delete them.
12. They're gone, and you're done!
13. As a preventative measure you could Consolidate your library (Advanced/Consolidate Library) and then give all your MP3's a tag in the "Comments" field of something unique like say... "Permanent_File" That way if iTunes should somehow re-add files from somewhere else on your computer again and create more duplicates, you have a way of easily sorting and distinguishing which are the good files and which are ones that you need to delete. (Anything without your "Permanent_File" tag.)
Apple really needs to refine the duplicate detection and make it easier to get rid of them.
* They should make it so that iTunes checks ALL tag info in addition to the song's title when compiling it's list of duplicates.
* There should be a "Select all checked files" option. (So as to avoid the whole star rating thing mentioned above.)
* There should also be an option to remove the files from your library when deleting songs from a playlist view. (eg: A prompt "Delete from this Playlist or Delete from your Library/iPod?"
Custom PC Windows XP Pro Got myself a refund on Vista. Getting a Mac!
Custom PC Windows XP Pro Got myself a refund on Vista. Getting a Mac!

My pet peeve is that when you have a studio recording
and a live recording of the same song by the same
artist, iTunes considers them to be duplicates.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.
The best way to bring your suggestions to Apple's attention is by submitting the form on this Support page .
I took your suggestion and reffered them to this page. Maybe they'll listen. (Heck I managed to convince the Google Earth team to move the on screen controls to the upper right corner from the bottom center to accomodate dual monitor users.)
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A tip for those with a fully depleted batt

I just thought I'd post my experience, maybe it will help someone. I have a Zen V that I left sitting for a while and the battery was completely dead. As you've probably seen in other postings and in the knowledge base, the Zens have trouble recovering from this state. The symptoms for my Zen were: 1)plug in USB, 2)Blue LEDs behind play would light briefly, 3) "Low Battery" screen would flash just long enough to see it, 3)the screen would go black, LEDs off, no charging icon. I left it connected like this for about 8 hours and it never accepted a charge.
I believe this is primarily due to the fact that when you plug your Zen into a USB port, the first thing it tries to do is dock, which uses what little power might be left in the battery. Contrary to the information in the knowledge base, my Zen would not take a charge regardless of how long I left it connected like this. I guess it gets stuck in a weird state and never makes it to the "accept charge" state.
So, how to solve this The key is to connect it to a charging device that does not try to perform the dock operation. You have several options here. If you have a wall/travel charger, that would probably be easiest. What I did was use another (Linux) PC that did not have the Zen driver on it. As soon as i plugged it in, it began charging, and after about an hour it had enough charge to dock with my normal Windows PC. If you don't have either of those two options, I suspect that just booting your PC to Dos/Command Line would probably work because I doubt that the Zen driver would get loaded (I haven't tried this). Basically any way you can get your PC to power the USB ports without loading the Zen driver (uninstall maybe ) should do the trick.
I hope that all made sense and that it helps someone out there. I was about ready to send mine in for repair, but this saved me the trouble.

Excellent tip, shoeless!I had such problem with my Zen Vision M: 60 GB. I solved leaving it into the usb plug for many time. Maybe my laptop went in a standby mode and the player didn't try to dock, but it was enough to charge a bit the Zen, and after fully charged.

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