Dupin is your iTunes duplicates manager.Dupin finds sets of duplicate tracks in iTunes based on the criteria you choose. It can then automatically select the 'Keeper' tracks from among the duplicates using a variety of versatile filter options. Dupin is flexible, fast, and easy to use.With. 1 Click to Manage Any Music Collection High-efficiently. Leawo Tunes Cleaner is an all-in-one iTunes cleanup program that could smartly clean up iTunes library, detect and delete duplicates in iTunes, get album artwork iTunes, download and add music tags like album, song name, artist, year, etc. To complete music info, allow manual editing of music tags, save unfixed music files for future.
Dupe Files
Free disk space by finding and removing all the duplicate files from iTunes.
Missing Files
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Instantly clean out the dead tracks that are referencing files which don't exist anymore.
Playlist Dupes
Clean your playlists and avoid listening to the same song more than once in each mix.
Abandoned Files
Detect and manage files from your music directories that aren't in iTunes.
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Recover Wasted Disk Space
Clean Music & Video File Duplicates
Dupe Away instantly finds the dupes in iTunes and, based on your preferences, automatically determines which duplicate to keep and which to remove.
Detect Unused Files
Ever wonder how many tracks exist in your Music folder that aren't in iTunes? We call these 'abandoned tracks.' Dupe Away detects these files for you so you can recover the file to iTunes or recover the disk space being wasted by it.
Clean Your iTunes Music Library
Instant Playlist Cleanup
Hate listening to the same song back-to-back? So do we. Dupe Away playlist feature analyzes all of your playlists individually and finds and removes those dupes within your playlists so you don't have to.
Remove Dead Tracks
If you've ever moved or deleted media using Finder (or any other app that's not iTunes), you may be left with some tracks that won't play in iTunes. With the touch of a button, Dupe Away cleans those tracks from iTunes so you no longer have to see that annoying 'file not found' dialog.
I have a lot of music, but not nearly as much as iTunes suggests. Why? Well, for some reason iTunes likes to create duplicate copies of files. In some cases, iTunes has created four or five duplicate files of the exact same song, by the exact same artist, from the exact same album. There are some ways to identify and deal with duplicate files in iTunes, but there’s plenty of room for improvement.
I’m a fan of Apple and have a generally high opinion of the quality of hardware engineering and software development from the company. iTunes stands out, however, as a stubbornly consistent example of the fact that Apple can also be quite fallible.
iTunes has a feature to identify duplicate items. Open iTunes and click File, Library, Show Duplicate Items. While it is better than nothing, the Show Duplicate Items feature is misnamed. Many of the files iTunes identifies as “duplicate items” are, in fact, not duplicates at all.
The problem is that the Show Duplicate Items feature seems to rely solely on the name of the individual track. However, in many cases the same track may exist on different albums. I want each album to be whole so I have the option of playing just that album without missing any songs, so I don’t want to remove any of the files in that case.
For example, the iTunes Show Duplicate Items feature claims that I have three duplicate copies of ‘Day Tripper’ by The Beatles. One of them is on The Beatles 1, one of them is on 1962-1966 Disc 2, and one of them is on Past Masters, Vol. 2, though, so they are not duplicates at all. To be accurate—and useful—the Show Duplicate Items feature should look beyond just the track name. If the track name, artist, and album information are all the same, then it’s a virtual certainty that it’s a duplicate file, but without all three of those elements there’s a pretty good chance it is not a duplicate.
There are plenty of actual duplicate files identified as well. Just below Day Tripper on my list is a song called Daylight by Maroon 5. I have five entries for this song. They are all the exact same track name, length, artist, album, and genre. How or why Apple managed to create five copies of the same song is beyond me, but there they are.
You can select the duplicate files and delete them. A message will pop up that reads:
Are you sure you want to delete the selected songs from your iTunes library? These songs will also be deleted from any iPod, iPhone, or iPad that synchronizes with your iTunes library.
There is a check box for “Do not ask me again”, so if you’ve checked that box previously you won’t see this message. Next, you will see another pop-up message that reads:
Do you want to delete the selected songs, or keep them in the iTunes Media folder? Mac os tweaker. Only files in the iTunes Media folder will be deleted.
In some cases, immediately after I have deleted all of the duplicate files, a new duplicate entry appears with a little cloud icon with an arrow pointing down—indicating that the song exists somewhere in my iTunes library in the cloud and is available to download…again. I would expect Apple to be smart enough to see that the file in question already exists locally, and therefore I do not need to have the option of downloading it a second time.
I have somewhere around 11,000 songs. With many of those songs having duplicate files and some of those songs having as many as five or six exact duplicates, it is an exceptionally tedious and painstakingly slow process to try and clean up the iTunes library. There also isn’t a lot of incentive since I’m confident iTunes will just screw it all up again as soon as I’m done.
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Ideally, Apple would figure out how and why duplicate files are being created (over and over again) and resolve that issue first. Then, Apple should improve the Show Duplicate Items feature to only identify songs that are actually identical by comparing all of the attributes and not just the track name. Finally, Apple should add an option in iTunes for the Show Duplicate Items feature that would allow me to delete all of the duplicate files with one click rather than having to manually select them and delete them all myself.