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Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Paul — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:59:52 -0000

Sorry, the program is called CopyTrans TuneTastic

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Best Registry Cleaner — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:37:05 -0000

Thanks for this tip - this has been driving me nuts with duplicate music files in my iTunes library.

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Daz Mac666 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:04:06 -0000

I have created some software to fix just this problem! Check out: http://www.scripteden.co.uk/

Safely find and remove the duplicates with Duplicate file Finder, then use Doug's dead links app to clean up iTunes:http://dougscripts.com/itun...

I removed nearly 500 duplicate tracks from my collection! - Works a treat! :)

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

data recovery — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:34:25 -0000

would have liked to get a better feel of the product before spending my money on it but the 3 song limit won't let me do that.

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Winny — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:55:53 -0000

Dude, this is stupid. Why can't itunes find dead files itself? Winamp can, all you do is right click and hit "remove dead files." Its worse too with itunes because it has to add anything to its library to play it. Once again, Winamp will play anything, but only add it to the library if you tell it too, which cures alot of the dupe and dead files in the first place.

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

allancass — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:13:28 -0000

I use Audio Dedupe and it is the best audio duplicate remover too. It can even recognize similar songs.
Free download here:
http://www.mindgems.com/pro...

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Gabriella Sabatini — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:46:06 -0000

I used mdeldupfile and worked fine. Just export your duplicates list and use the form at:

http://mdecks.com/mdeldupfo...

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

AleJandro — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:52:58 -0000

Use mdeldupfile. (try it for free)

http://mdecks.com/mdeldupfo...

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

tania1693 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:47:07 -0000

Try using mDelDupFile. You don't have to install any application. You just upload your exported duplicate list and you get back a bat file (or sh in Mac) that will remove all your duplicates.

You can also choose which tracks to keep (from your duplicates) by using your own decision criteria (such as keeping the best quality or the smallest files, etc)

And you can try it for free.
mDelDupFile
http://www.mdecks.com/mdeld...

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Irwan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:12:57 -0000

There is another program called iDeduper.
http://www.ideduper.com

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

max_123 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:54:43 -0000

Just found the special tool for duplicates removal from iTunes.
http://audiocomparer.com/ar...

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Anna Markel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:22:18 -0000

Works as advertised, Freaking Awesome iTunes Tool
Pros: This app actually does what it says it does, it finds duplicate songs using more sophisticated criteria than the crappy feature that comes with iTunes. It seeks out dead links and duplicate entries. This is powerful stuff for squeezing the most space out of your ipod. After I was done I was able to get all of my music into my 30 gig iPod. Couldn't do that before running this app! I would say it is indispensable. Try it! Get it at http://www.markelsoft.com

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

aaron — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:20:11 -0000

Try Duplicate File Cleaner, it works for ITUNE

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Joe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:16:21 -0000

i find duplicate finder does the job fast and easily. i suggest you to try duplicate finder to remove duplicate files
Get it here : http://www.ashisoft.com

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

MousE — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:00:16 -0000

I downloaded this program, and it removed precisely 3 songs from over 3000 dupes, and then said, that's it, now buy the full version.

Waste of time!

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Allan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:24:04 -0000

I found this program on download.com - Directory Report
http://www.file-utilities.com/downloads/wdir.zip

It has many features - one of them is to find duplicates
Very fast and free trial period

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Kay — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:16:58 -0000

Thanks for this tip - this has been driving me nuts with duplicate music files in my iTunes library. This is very handy. iTunes library needs better software to manage the library and this should have been built in

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

John — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:36:07 -0000

Ignore these grumpy users. Dupe Eliminator is a great product that I have use for over a year. It does many, many things and obviously neither user has used it especially when comparing to iTunes dupe facility which is very weak. Dupe Eliminator has flexible dupe criteria and also criteria to determine which file to kept as the orig (e.g. mp3 etc.). Playlists are also support, UnDelete is great -- there are just many, many good features. I don't mind if a user takes the times to use a product then comments on its pros and cons but some user are just looking to complain...

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Jeff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:14:01 -0000

Thanks for this excellent post.

I have been trying to figure out how to get rid of a ton of dupes I have on my ipod.

Jeff's last blog post....embroidery machines

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

BrotherO — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:10:30 -0000

I had a boatload of dead links and duplicates in my iTunes because I reinstalled it after rebuilding my c: drive due to a virus. I had my music on an external hard drive and moved it back to c:, that's where the trouble began. I used iTunes Library Updater (free) at: http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/ It worked well, but I had to keep rescanning the computer with it. So, after a couple of days, I just found the iTunes data file, removed it and had iTunes recan my c: for music. The only downside was I lost my playlists...but I was desparate. iTunes really needs to improve it's software to allow removal of dead links and to be able to rescan and resync music on your hard drive.

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Matt — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:09:48 -0000

MediaMonkey has neat script which finds duplicates both by hash value or metadata. It does everything you want plus more. It even lets you transfer the playcount from the dups you delete to the ones you keep. Oh and it's free too:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13000

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

anon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:50:04 -0000

Oh It makes VERY much sense having to pay for a program to do something that iTunes intentionally should be able to do *sigh*. F.Y. Apple and F.Y. whoever made this program just to charge people for it!!!

Go for donations instead, there are people who actually DO donate if the work is worth it, trust me! Mandatory charging for programs doing stuff that other programs should is not the way to go!

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

kol — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:11:36 -0000

Or even Better, get a Free tool that does the same:

http://www.winsite.com/bin/...

Unfortunately, the publisher's site is gone - a crappy robot generated keyword rich page is there instead. Shame really, it's a great little program.

Certainly the best one i've used for duplicates.

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

john2002 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:59:10 -0000

Try Duplicate Finder to find and delete duplicate files including mp3s/wma, Advance marking system lets you select files by date, size, and several other criteria. Duplicate files can be deleted, moved, or copied.

Duplicate Finder search duplicates using byte by byte or crc32 to give you most accurate and faster results.

Try it free: http://www.ashisoft.com

Re: Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks

Elliot — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:57:20 -0000

Agreed. After going through the trouble of downloading and analyzing your library this program will allow you to delete 3 songs unless you pay the 35$ license. Very obnoxious.