Removing iTunes Dupes help?

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  1. Gurv, Nov 27, 2012

    Gurv macrumors newbie

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    got 10 thousand worth of songs with duplicates in it and its killing HDD space, anyone know quick way to get rid of it for free and not TuneUp

    I dont wanna manually go through it all

    cheers :)
     
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  2. GGJstudios, Nov 27, 2012

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    You may want to check out Dupin from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes, which is a great resource for managing your iTunes tags and files.

    However, there are reasons why you may want to keep some duplicates. iTunes considers items duplicates if the song name and artist fields match. They may be from different albums, have different lengths or bitrates, be different file types, be live or studio versions, etc. There is no software that can make all those determinations for you. The safest method of dupe deletion is manual. With any other method, you run the risk of deleting something you didn't intend to delete.
     
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  3. Gurv, Nov 27, 2012

    Gurv thread starter macrumors newbie

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    any other methods, this costs money and a bit awkward
     
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  4. Weaselboy, Nov 27, 2012

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    There is a find duplicates feature built in with iTunes
     
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  5. Gurv, Nov 27, 2012

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    i know that what i meant by not going through it all myself
     
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