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santosh | February 13, 2009 01:57 AM | in Technology & Internet

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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BEST ANSWER chosen by asker | cyber34 | February 13, 2009 02:27 AM

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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ihop | February 13, 2009 03:03 AM

You need a dup detector
http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/dupe.html
http://www.clonespy.com/?Download
http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/

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drmatt | February 13, 2009 03:06 AM

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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allancass | July 12, 2009 08:51 PM

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.

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