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Please try again. You can quickly locate items in your library or a playlist. In the iTunes app on your PC, click in the search field in the top-right corner and type search criteria for the item you want to find. As you type, iTunes displays a list of items that match the criteria you entered.
Let me break it down for you. Let me show you how to do that step by step. Step 1. You can first select a playlist, a few songs, or the entire library that you want to remove duplicates from. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Select the recently added duplicated songs and hit the delete to remove all the duplicated songs from iTunes. Notes: If you only want to remove exact duplicate tracks, press and hold the Shift key while you click the File button. If you only want to delete downloaded items, you need first click View and select Only Downloaded Music before showing duplicate items.
You will see the option greyed out when you want to apply this to your iOS music library. If you have a very larger music collection like thousands of tracks, you may still find it hard to do that manually. Luckily, someone has written a script to help you remove duplicates on iTunes automatically. You refer to the steps below to see how it works.
Download the script DeDuper from here to run. Like the previous method, select the playlists or the entire library that you want to remove duplicates from. If you do not specify the music source, this script will check all the downloaded music for duplicates. My recommendation is to back up your library make a copy of the iTunes Library.
You can select the Music source in your library to run this script. If you do not select a music source, this script will check all the downloaded music for duplicates. As you can see this method can only remove duplicate songs from iTunes library that are physically stored on your computer. If you want to remove duplicates from Apple Music, you can check the next method.
If you want to remove duplicates songs on your iOS music library, there is one pre-made shortcut that can help you do that without a PC.
Since iOS 12, Shortcuts app is more like a system based feature that allows you to automate many tasks. You can check this guide to learn to create your own Siri shortcuts. This shortcut can help you isolate duplicates whether the songs are imported from other location or tracks from Apple Music.
Sound cool? You can follow the steps below to get started. When the process is complete, open the Music app and you will find a new playlist called Redundant Songs. Tracks in this playlists are all the duplicates in your music library. Now you can delete all songs in this playlist from Library. TidyMyMusic is a third-party program for removing duplicate songs in iTunes music library. You can delete all duplicates automatically by one click.
You can now download the free trial version of the program to see how it works. You can also import your local music to TidyMyMusic. Click the Delete Duplicates button at the bottom left and then the program will show you all the duplicates.
You can also specify the file info to compare if needed. The program will automatically select the best version of the song to keep, so you just need to click the Delete Duplicates button to delete all the duplicated songs in iTunes Library.
More than removing duplicated songs in iTunes, the program can automatically fix mislabeled songs with song name, artist info, and so forth. Now it is your turn. Which of these methods are you going to try first? If you have found a better way to do it, share it in the comments.
Here are a few tips and techniques on how to get rid of duplicate songs in your iTunes Library as well as some precautions you should take before deleting duplicate tracks. As your iTunes Library grows, you will probably lose track of exactly what media you have already imported. Eventually you will end up with duplicate songs and videos. Yes, dreaded iTunes duplicates. Or maybe a friend with a big Terabyte hard drive loaded you up with a lot of music recently.
This will vary depending on what version of iTunes you have installed. Analyze the metadata of your duplicates. You will now see all the media that you have doubles for in your iTunes Library. For example, take a look at the image below. Not so fast. Take a closer look at the Album column. These two tracks may be the same song, but they are from two different albums.
One is from the Dazed And Confused movie soundtrack and the other is from a compilation called Mullets Rock. They are the same songs, but from different albums. If you were in this situation, should you delete one of them? This entirely depends on you.
If you are short on hard drive space, then you might want to delete one of the tracks. At the office, we have a 2 TB Lacie drive with plenty of hard drive space for our music and will keep both songs. We're glad you reached out for help. Do you have iCloud Music Library enabled on your devices? If so and then you sync using iTunes that would explain why you are seeing duplicates of your songs.
Check out this link on why you see the cloud icon next to the song and some titles are grayed out. If your songs are grayed out. Turn on Sync Library with Apple Music. Dec 1, PM. Communities Get Support.
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