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3 months ago

in How to Remove duplicate files from your iTunes media library | Entertainment | Tech-Recipes on Tech-Recipes
I think we all know about the find duplicates feature...the point is who wants to sit and manually select every duplicated and delete them one by one. Is there a magic button that says "find all duplicates and delete them for me?"

I've got easily over 400 dupes and do not relish having to sit and manually remove them.
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davak The "Show Duplicates" feature (iTunes -> File -> Show Duplicates) only guesses files that are the same. Frequently, it will show two tunes that are similar but not exactly the same-- Live versus album, for example. Because of this, it's always going to be dangerous to try to develop some automatic way to remove duplicates using this feature. Thus, there is not a "find all duplicates and delete them for me" magic button.

Several paid software packages exist that will help with this. If somebody posts a free solution, we'll be glad to publish it.
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