Comments on: How to Easily Delete Duplicate Songs in iTunes

By: Sloane Miller

Sloane Miller — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:35:34 +0000

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By: Sloane Miller

Sloane Miller — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:35:34 +0000

TY! RT @AchooAllergy oooh! This looks promising! http://t.co/BNBKDHI #itunes

By: AchooAllergy.com

AchooAllergy.com — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:32:48 +0000

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By: hdvhufhdo

hdvhufhdo — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:35:58 +0000

Well, mine’s a totally different story.
I bought majority of my songs on my iPod Touch directly. Somehow, a glitch occured when I synced my iPod, and now all my bought songs are duplicated. It isn’t shown in my library on iTunes on my computer. How do I delete?

By: rushdenfc

rushdenfc — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:00:15 +0000

you can select exact duplicate songs by holding down the alt (option) key on your mac before clicking on the file menu. then selecting exact duplicates.

By: xxdv

xxdv — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:20:13 +0000

Well, that's still a lot of to do to manually selecting songs. I use imdeduper to clean my music library. It's very easy to use.

By: jjmfe

jjmfe — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:24:58 +0000

I’m with the post complaining “why can’t it just delete exact duplicates automatically.” I also have about 2-300 gigs of music, and in backing up over the network, I’ve duplicated many of them. It’s a pretty daunting task to manually select every other entry of thousands, and delete them. Originally I compounded the problem by moving all the duplicates to a folder on my desktop, and then realized I was trashing a lot of good, original music too. This should be something itunes could fix with a line of programing code. It’s foolish to have to manually vet every pair that looks alike. and manually choose one.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:02:57 +0000

@Hymus, I had the same problem. I selected all the music in the library and deleted everything so I had an empty music folder in iTunes. Then I selected “File > Add Folder to Library …” and selected the directory folder where all my music files reside (in subdirectories, natch). After iTunes scanned all the directories I ended up with a clean database in iTunes with only one entry for each song. Good luck!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:14:27 +0000

I have an external that I’ve used to “back up” my music numerous times. I have multiple folders that contain the same song. I know i have not done “back ups” the correct way, being lazy i have just copied files to my external knowing i have plenty of space. I got a new computer and all music is on the external.

How do I get files consolidated? and into one folder on my computer that can be used without having external?

By: Paul Randall

Paul Randall — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:31:11 +0000

Hello Hymus,

If there is a single version of each song, but iTunes shows two, it may be a permissions issue for your home directory Preferences folder, but you would see other issues if this were the case. You can Command I to the Preferences folder in ~/Library (where ~ is your home folder) to see if you have read/write access to it. If you don’t, that could be the cause of doubling everything that each points to the same file. If you have write privileges, then it is something related to iTunes and/or its Library file.