How to Remove Duplicate Songs From iTunes

When listening to music duplicate songs can be annoying. However, this is a problem that can easily be addressed. Here's how you remove duplicate songs in iTunes.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Newest version of iTunes

1. 
    

   Open iTunes and click on "View" and "Show Duplicates."

2. You will be shown all available duplicates.

3. You would then need to make the choice to delete one or more duplicates. Make sure you give a listen to some of these as they may be live or extended versions.

4. Deleting your music may be unrecoverable. So delete with care.

Tips & Warnings

• Give a listen to each song you wish to remove as deleting may be unrecoverable.

[getit]

on 8/28/2009 try this http://www.duplicate-finder-pro.com

[markelsoft]

on 8/20/2009 Try Dupe Eliminator for iTunes at http://www.markelsoft.com It safely finds and removes duplicates and missing files from your iTunes Music Library. Has many features including UnDelete.

[rachael1723]

on 6/15/2009 I used DUPIN and it worked perfectly!

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/dupin.html

[getit]

on 9/27/2008 Duplicate Finder has worked great for me! It has been a terrific assistance for me in eliminating duplicate images and songs from my hard drives - saving me loads of time.

Thank you Chancellor...

Get it from: http://www.ashisoft.com

[Chancellor]

on 9/5/2008 I used Duplicate Finder and although it deleted all duplicate files, the tracks still show up in my itunes library, I just (obviously) can't play the ones attached to deleted files. I have about 45GB of music (now 90) and would like to avoid deleting manually. Any advice?