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How can I quickly remove duplicates from my huge collection of songs in iTunes?

I already tried File > Find Duplicates but there are just too many songs to manually remove. Is there any quick way to do this?
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cyber34 | 3 years, 3 months ago
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If you're on Windows
There doesn't seem to be a native in application way of doing it, looking around, the only result I've found so far is this program called Dupe Eliminator, which does cost money, but a 30 day trial should be enough time for you to use it to clean out your library.
http://www.markelsoft.com/html/dupe_eliminator_help.html

There's also possibly this free app that might do something similar, not sure how useful it'd be though.
http://www.moleskinsoft.com/

If you're on mac, then there's this supposedly easy to use apple script that'll do it for you.
http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2006/11/11/better-itunes-song-deduping/

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allancass | 2 years, 10 months ago
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Audio Dedupe - Duplicate MP3 Finder
Audio Dedupe is an innovative tool that can recognize duplicate audio files even if they are stored in different file formats and are not marked with ID3 tags.
Supports MP3, MP2, MP1, MPA, WAV, OGG and AIFF file formats

You can try this FREE tool that was recently featured on PCMagazine and ZDNet:
Find Duplicate Files Free - Fast Duplicate File Finder
Fast Duplicate File Finder will help you find fast all duplicate files in a folder and its sub folders.
The applications will compare the content of your files so it will find duplicates even if they are using different file names.
It uses fast binary comparison algorithm and has internal preview supporting a lot of image, video, music and text file formats.

Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder will find all similar and duplicate images in a folder and its sub folders.
It uses advanced algorithms in order to find similar images in a way that a human does.
Due to that fact it can find similar images even if they are in different image formats and sizes.

duplicate photo finder
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asmrkt | 2 years, 8 months ago Report

try duplicate finder 2009 the most advance duplicate file finder in the market... you can download it here http://www.duplicate-finder-pro.com

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drmatt | 3 years, 3 months ago
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For Mac users, I HIGHLY recommend going to Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes page. There are a number of FREE scripts that are very useful.

Here's the link for Dupin the duplicates manager:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php

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ihop | 3 years, 3 months ago
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asmrkt | 2 years, 8 months ago
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try duplicate finder 2009 the most advance duplicate file finder in the market... you can download it here http://www.duplicate-finder-pro.com

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binaryman | 2 years, 3 months ago
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I use Directory Report to find duplicate files
http://www.file-utilities.com

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