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komedol — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:49:58 -0000

I had the same problem, then I used this script : http://www.treeratfishing.com/2006/08/18/using-... (for PC). It worked for me :)

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reactez — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:21:27 -0000

Personally I use iDeduper on Windows.

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T3 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:40:59 -0000

Simply amazing job. You probably just saved me two - three hours. I would've been deleting each duplicate if it wasn't for your simple manual way of fixing it. Thanks a million.

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tyler — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:51 -0000

don't listen to any of these just do this:

1) HOLD SHIFT- and press file
2) Magically a new option comes up labeled, 'show exact duplicates'
3) voila delete all the unwanted ones, such as unrated ones, in a massive group.

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mollyjmoody — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:17:10 -0000

manual method worked great, but lost all playlists (they are all blank) and trying to see if any way to recover. help

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woodenbrainconcepts — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:53:27 -0000

iDupe is for Mac OS X only, as stated on the product page. It will not work on Windows. There is no intent to dupe anyone, unfortunately sometimes Windows users do not read the stated system requirements. Please understand that many software companies have no refund policies unless the product doesn't work as described, because software is not a physical product that can be returned. I regret the confusion it sometimes causes.

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tstname — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:44:42 -0000

I Tried... Audio Comparer but did not find how it works(poor design)... in that case Duplicate Finder 2009 is the winner for me.... its so simple to find and remove duplicate files in this program...

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tonybaloney — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:27:00 -0000

your "easy" approach isn't very easy if you have 20 GB of duplicates.

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jon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:04:05 -0000

i made an auto hot key, it goes to the tray, but nothing happens.

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Sean — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:11:18 -0000

I ran an 8 double one D file dumper and it seemed to clear the problem up in a jiffy. The only problem is that I have to engage the manual choke to get my monitor to work in cold weather!

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Pellet — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:48:48 -0000

LOL how wrong you are Pralz, iTunes is created exclusively by Apple and Quicktime was created exclusively by Apple from the start.

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Christa — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:47:35 -0000

Just a warning: the hyped program "iFix" to de-duplicate itunes hasn't loaded on any of my or my friends' computers; it just crashes before install.

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Emily — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:21:57 -0000

Actually it's probably because you need to uncheck a box which automatically makes duplicates of every song you save in itunes, you have to Go to Edit -> Preferences.
Switch to 'Advanced' tab.
Uncheck 'Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library'.

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Emily — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:56:14 -0000

How much does that cost though? Is there anything free?

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Emily — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:52:41 -0000

Is there anything free or for UK users (not sold only in US) and does the first method you mentioned get rid of dead links as well, because I have about 4000 of those somehow!

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Brett — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:02:24 -0000

I am struggling with another twist on the dupe problem. I recently installed a network drive at home and want all computers/notebooks to be able to access the same iTunes music folder on the network drive, for their iTunes library.

I set about transferring the files that had built up on 2 of the computers onto the main drive, plus the collection on my iPod, which had become separated from its mother due to a drive crash (alot of the songs were already dupes of the other libraries). The problem is, the songs from the iPod have copied directly to the main folder, not in organised into albums, whilst the ones from the computers are saved within their respective albums.

I've ended up with no less than 5 dupes in some cases, in a 30Gb library. I have moved the default folder referenced by iTunes to the network drive, however when I try to 'add to library' it still tries to copy them back to my local HD, which I am trying to avoid (and besides don't have the space!). How can I set up iTunes on each of the computers to only import links to the songs on the network drive to its library, and also remove the dupes??

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Pralz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:01:52 -0000

If i remember correctly... iTunes is QUICKTIME's child... Apple just bought QuickTime to own iTunes. It's not Apple who created iTunes, it is QuickTime.

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hanna — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:56:15 -0000

But you lose the original Date Added context.

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hanna — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:51:55 -0000

From the help:

Choose File > Show Duplicates to find every instance of a song from the same artist from any album in your collection. For example, the same song could appear on the artist's album and on a movie soundtrack.

Press the Shift key and choose File > Show Exact Duplicates to find multiple copies of the same song (if, for example, you inadvertently imported the song twice).

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Dan — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:27:22 -0000

Why is iTunes creating the duplicates to begin with? This is so incredibly frustrating. This software is so crappy. It has done this on every computer I own. If I didn't own an iPod Touch I would get rid of iTunes all together. Can't you Apple software developers get this simple piece of software working correctly?

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efef — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:06:11 -0000

I have a g15 keyboard so I have a macro button, when do I type this in just while I am looknig at itunes?

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efef — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:04:38 -0000

I followed the above steps for manual removal except I used an automatic itunes library dupe remover so I didnt have to sift through 488 dupes, program was called "Dupe eliminator for itunes" Ran that then followed the steps above. Vista 63bit

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jim — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:31:57 -0000

Be careful about iDupe and don't get duped--It's for Macs ONLY. If you have Windows do not buy it, you'll just be making an $8 donation.

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Jordan Hewitt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:14:44 -0000

i wrote an autohotkey script to select every other song in the "show duplicates" window very very quickly.

===================================
SetTitleMatchMode, 2

^t::

WinActivate, iTunes
Sleep, 1000

Loop {

SendEvent {Control down}

y = 94
Loop {
SendEvent {Click 1000, %y%}
if (y > 930) {
break
}
y += 34
}

PixelGetColor, done, 1237, 926
if (done != 0xBDBDBD) {
break
}

SendEvent {Click 1237, 935, 50}

}

SendEvent {Control up}

return
================================================

Very simple to use, but you will have to adjust the numbers to fit your screen size, unless you are in 1680x1050 like me. You also of course need to download autohotkey, but i highly suggest that for anyone anyway.

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Ryan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:03 -0000

Another easy way is to simply uninstall and then re-install iTunes. You can then import a single library instead of dealing with duplicate files. I recently changed my music directory to a different folder and had all of the same files imported to my library again, though only the recently imported files are playable. Really irritating, but I think this will fix it.

Anyway, less chance of loss in the process of dragging and dropping. And it's free.