How to Remove Duplicates Songs from My iTunes Library?

smallwei 10:35 am on October 30, 2009 | Answers: 1    
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• smallwei 10:35 am on October 30, 2009
  

  There are several FREE choices:
  1. Corral iTunes Dupes
  You first select the search criteria (such as name, album, artist, size … etc), and Corral iTunes Dupes search your iTunes library for all the tracks with a match. It will then group these tracks into a Dupes playlist for you to select and delete.
  http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=corralitunesdupes

  2. Phelix
  Phelix is able to find duplicated itune files insidie selected folders. It has Audio matcher, which is able to detect bad or missing music-tags, similar sounds, even the ones where audio signals are shifted, track starting at different time, recorded with different bit rates or volumes.
  http://www.pekarna.si/
  http://www.pekarna.si/deploy/apps/Phelix_MacOSX.dmg

  3. Better iTunes song deduping
  This is a ‘hacked’ version of Corral iTunes Dupes by Eric Pugh.
  “His version uses some wicked fast PERL to find all the duplicate songs based on info in the Library, and then puts them all in a Dupes playlist. However, I wanted to filter by Name, Artist, and Album, and have a single playlist where I could delete in one fell swoop all the duplicates. So I tweaked his AppleScript to have another prompt that asks if you want all dupes to go in the playlist, or just copies 2…X to go in.”
  http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2006/11/11/better-itunes-song-deduping/