iTunes Duplicate Songs

[Croatian]

i have well over 20GB of audio files and songs and there is like 400 duplicate songs in the library, using iTunes i can find the duplicate songs, but deleting them one by one using finder will take me a whole day

is there an quick and easy way to find them using iTunes and have them deleted from your Hard Drive as soon as they are deleted from the Library


Thank you

 

[USMaC]

1) Select all the duplicates that you want to delete in iTunes.
2) Press delete.
3) A dialog box will come up asking if you want to move the selected songs to the trash or keep them in the iTunes music folder. Select "Move to trash."

That should do it, unless I'm misunderstanding exactly what it is you're trying to do.

 

[Croatian]

1) Select all the duplicates that you want to delete in iTunes.
2) Press delete.
3) A dialog box will come up asking if you want to move the selected songs to the trash or keep them in the iTunes music folder. Select "Move to trash."

That should do it, unless I'm misunderstanding exactly what it is you're trying to do.

That is what i wanna do exactly, but the iTunes don't give me that options it just says do u wanna remove it from the Library doesn't ask if u want it to go to trash and i would like if it did ask me to do that

 

[dejo]

And for an easy way to find the duplicates in iTunes, simply use View > Show Duplicates.

 

[dXTC]

That is what i wanna do exactly, but the iTunes don't give me that options it just says do u wanna remove it from the Library doesn't ask if u want it to go to trash and i would like if it did ask me to do that

Important Question: Are you allowing iTunes to organize your song files, or do you add new songs to your library manually?

 

[Croatian]

Important Question: Are you allowing iTunes to organize your song files, or do you add new songs to your library manually?

i add songs to library manually

 

[killmoms]

Well, that's why you don't get the Move to Trash option. If you're managing your files manually it assumes you have a good reason for doing so. If you want to delete from iTunes, manage with iTunes. If you want to manage manually, be prepared for the consequences (namely: less automation).

 

[Croatian]

Well, that's why you don't get the Move to Trash option. If you're managing your files manually it assumes you have a good reason for doing so. If you want to delete from iTunes, manage with iTunes. If you want to manage manually, be prepared for the consequences (namely: less automation).

how do u manage the library with iTunes?

 

[killmoms]

how do u manage the library with iTunes?

Check "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized." This will re-arrange your music based on your files' tags, so if your stuff is tagged badly, it's probably a bad idea and you're better off just deleting things manually.

Also, this breaks things down into an Artist/Album/## Track Name.ext format, so if you have CDs with multiple artists you will want to set them as "Compilations." Then they will appear in a top-level Compilations folder, which will hold folders for each album.

 

[Trinitarian]

A point that has been glaringly ignored is that in order to actually delete the duplicate file from your computer through the iTunes menu you cannot select any more than NINE (9) songs at a time. Anymore than that and it limits your selected action to "remove" rather than "trash."

9 items or less =
"Do you want to move the selected songs to the Trash, or keep them in the iTunes Media folder?
Only files in the iTunes Media folder will be moved to the Trash.

Cancel, Keep files, or Move to Trash"



10+ items =
"Are you sure you want to remove the selected songs from your iTunes library?
These songs will also be removed from any iPod, iPhone, or iPad which synchronizes with your iTunes library.

Cancel, or Remove"

Why do these options change for what appears to be a highly arbitrary reason?

 

[knobhobbor]

are the choices to delete from iTunes delete from library (separate and distinct from iTunes)?

"Do you want to move the selected songs to the Trash, or keep them in the iTunes Media folder?
Only files in the iTunes Media folder will be moved to the Trash.

Cancel, Keep files, or Move to Trash"

Why would someone want to "keep them in the iTunes media folder" as opposed to delete them? Answer, because deleting them is not an option in iTunes in default settings (as opposed to a custom configuration). why is it called "keep files" in one sentence and in the previous sentence "keeping them" is "deleting" them?

Why don't they offer "remove the selected song/app from all synced devices, keep in library" or "remove the selected song/app from all synced devices, delete from library"?

Is that what apple is offering as choices when it presents these dialog boxes?

 

[Partron22]

"Show Duplicates" tells me I have 2923 duplicates (some are also triplicates).
Very few of those are duplicates in terms of being the same version of the same song by the same artist.
Be careful what you toss.