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How to delete duplicate songs on iTunes

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MacEffects

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Hello Everyone,
I was just wondering how do you delete songs that have more then one of each, I thought it'd might be consolidate library but then it asked me something, and I was not sure... I know it sounds like I don't know how to use iTunes but I do everyday, just don't know this 😱

Please let me know.
 
In the Library, select Edit>Show duplicate songs. Then delete the duplicates it shows.
Once done, go back to Edit>show all.
 
Well, it was ticking me off with certain artists being missing from the artists list on both my iPod and iTunes library. Then I realised all the ones missing were classed as compilations, so selected them all and unchecked the compilations box, (I never use the list on either iPod or iTunes anyway), and got the artists correct. This did give me duplicates of the tracks when I dragged them over to my iPod, (which is manually managed now), but there is no option to see duplicate songs anywhere other than the library, so had to select Compilations from Browse and do a select all>delete.

Bless common sense. 🙂
 
finally lol

Daveway said:
In the Library, select Edit>Show duplicate songs. Then delete the duplicates it shows.
Once done, go back to Edit>show all.
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i knew there was a way to do it but im new wit a mac n i couldnt figure it out saves alot of time lol cheers!
 
joshd88 said:
i knew there was a way to do it but im new wit a mac n i couldnt figure it out saves alot of time lol cheers!
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well i'm new to mac and its family softwares..when i select show duplicates, some of my songs which have 4 copies in itunes show all 4 copies and the others having 4 copies show only 3 copies, so i cant select all and press delete. in both the cases, the songs are with identical names and else...wonder why this is happening.
 
Dupin, listed above, works very well though there is no way to filter on the path as well. Could very well be worth the $15 purchase price.
 
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