How Do You Delete Duplicate Songs in Your iTunes Library
How Do You Delete Duplicate Songs in Your iTunes Library
Your iTunes library is probably your favorite place to store, manage and share your music with friends and blog users. However, as we all know, you sometimes run our of space trying to keep all of your songs or you may mistakenly have multiple copies of songs that you simply do not need.
Often times while transferring files in your iTunes library, duplications often arise and again, we have the nagging problem of finding a way to delete these duplicates. This invariably takes up large amounts of space on your hard drive and you may find that you cannot manually remove the duplicate music because there is simply too much to do manually.
You can always free up room on your hard drive by deleting duplicate songs from your iTunes library and this is not too difficult a task.
Thankfully, the Internet is an excellent resource to find different programs and methods for dealing with this nuisance and you have a few options available to you.
You have a choice between manually removing these duplicates or the option of downloading and using a ready-made program that is especially designed to do this.
The manual solution would involve using the built-in function that comes with the iTunes ("Show Duplicates"). This feature finds and removes the duplicate tracks in iTunes. When you highlight every track in your library and drag these tracks to a new folder on your drive, a complete copy of your library will be made without the duplicates. Next you will need to delete every track in iTunes and every file in your original library on your drive. Then you can either move the contents of your new folder to your library folder and drop the library folder back into iTunes or point iTunes to this new folder. Now you have a new library without any duplicates. You have cleaned house!
Examples of automated solutions possible are down-loadable programs such as Shareware, iDupe or iSweep, which are all readily available and fairly inexpensive and well worth the price if this is a constant problem. TidySongs is another program to consider which is easy yet powerful which will automatically scan your music collection and remove duplicate songs, even if they are misspelled or missing information. Its intelligent database technology will find the matching artwork, remove duplicates and clean things up. It's push-button simple.
If you are someone who is more visual in nature, you can get tips and learn how to delete duplicate songs by visiting YouTube such as CHIP NIT.com.
A word of warning: before you start deleting songs "willy-nilly" as some love to say, make sure that the songs are identical. They may both look alike when actually one may be a 'studio' version of the song versus a live' version and you may want to keep them both but accidentally delete one as a duplicate. This happens often and can be avoided by exercising more care.
Having been made aware of these possibilities to Delete Duplicate Songs in iTunes, you will no doubt make it a point to begin to free up valuable space in your music library and making new room for more of your favorite songs.
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