Showing posts with label remove replicates in itunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remove replicates in itunes. Show all posts

Monday, December 22, 2014

How-to Tips - Find and remove duplicate songs in your iTunes library

After years of use, many iTunes users would find their iTunes music library messed up with songs that show more than once. These duplicate songs would eat a lot of storage and make music enjoying less enjoyable.  Thus, today I would like to share 2 ways to find and remove duplicate songs in iTunes music library, and make a simple comparison between these 2 solutions.

Solution 1 – iTunes

Apple already prepared options within iTunes to help iTunes users find and remove song duplicates. You could follow the below steps to get rid of duplicates.
Find duplicates
1.      Choose View > Show Exact Duplicate Items.
Matches are based on the song name and artist. If you have multiple versions of the same song (for example, live and studio versions, or versions from different albums) you can hold the Alt or Option key (for Mac OS X) or the Shift key (for Windows) and choose View > Show Exact Duplicate Items. This will show only duplicate songs having the same name, artist, and album.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

How to clean up iTunes and delete duplicates in iTunes music library

Clean up iTunes
As more and more people use Apple devices, iTunes becomes even more popular and vital for people to store all files, like video, audio, apps, etc. As a comprehensive managing center for all iOS devices, iTunes could also act as audio player to play music and videos. People could download and store music files in iTunes freely. As the music files stored in iTunes increase, iTunes would become messy and get various duplicates of the same music file. Thus, questions like this "How can I easily remove and delete duplicates in itunes without having to manually remove each?" could be frequently seen online everywhere. 

How to remove or delete duplicates in iTunes? It is very easy for people to delete music files in iTunes. However, it is not easy for people to delete duplicates in iTunes manually. In fact, there is no automatic way within iTunes itself that you could delete duplicates in iTunes music library without having to manually remove each. The easiest way to do this with iTunes only is to go to "Edit> Show Duplicate Songs" and then sort by time to delete duplicates in iTunes. This would also require for manual operation. 

So, is there any better way to do this? Is there any wonderful iTunes cleanup app to help clean up iTunes and delete duplicates in iTunes music library with simple and fast operation? Of course yes. There are quite a few wonderful iTunes cleaner programs for you to use while trying to delete duplicates in iTunes music library, including: TuneUp, Song Sergeant, Tunes Cleaner for Mac, etc. 
iTunes

Well, I would like to take the Tunes Cleaner for Mac as example to show you how to delete duplicates in iTunes music files on Mac OS computers. This iTunes cleaner app is suitable for Mac users to clean up iTunes music library, delete duplicates in iTunes, get album artwork for iTunes music files, etc. Once opened, it would be automatically scan the iTunes music library and list all music files that need to be fixed in specified classes. As the purpose is to delete duplicates in iTunes music library, check all music files under the "Duplicate songs in one list" option and then click "Fix" button to delete duplicates in iTunes music library easily. After fixing, click the "Apply" button and this iTunes cleaner program would automatically apply the fixed results to iTunes music library. Your iTunes music library will no longer be filled with duplicates. 

This iTunes cleanup tool has been considered to be the easiest and most effective one, while other tools like TuneUp and Song Sergeant also provide very convenient operation and powerful functions. With these iTunes cleanup apps, it would be easier to clean up iTunes and delete duplicates in iTunes music library.