iHate iTunes
Monday, April 14, 2008 by amy
Because of errors that occurred in moving my iTunes library three times in the last 3 years, I have some duplicate songs in my library. Well, some quadruplicates, to be honest. 1) I don’t know how I did this. 2) I don’t know how to fix this. But the problem has snowballed (don’t they all)!
The situation, as it stands, is that my library currently has 16,214 songs, which amounts to 65.43 GB, or 47.7 days of music. When I choose to display duplicates, there are 15,351 items that display. I have been working to delete duplicates for a year now, in alpha order by song title, and am only at songs beginning with “al.’
If anyone can solve this for me, please send me a tip. Throw me a bone. Palease!
I feel your pain! Been there, done it!
Found a few other blog posts about the same thing…
http://ask.metafilter.com/70892/Fast-way-to-remove-thousands-of-duplicates-from-iTunes
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1579/how_to_remove_duplicate_files_from_your_itunes_media_library_
Another way could be to “View Duplicates”, then sort all the tracks by “Date Added” … so then you can highlight and remove all the duplicates that have been added at a later date?
Good luck!
Love this guy’s NxNW pict.