[X4U] Cleaning Up Your iTunes 4.7 Library - Deleting Duplicates

[Wally Rodriguez]

Try this:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24922

iTunes Dupes Barrier

I have used this software to search for duplicates in my 105Gb iTunes 
database with no problems.

It puts all dupes in a special list so that these comparisons can be 
made.

W.

On Oct 28, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> On 10/28/04 5:48 PM, "revDAVE" <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:
>
>> The new iTunes 4.7 has the ability to display duplicates songs.  But, 
>> be
>> careful! ... before you go  deleting all the duplicates -  please 
>> check them
>> out first! I’m not exactly sure what Apple’s criteria is for selecting
>> duplicates, however if you’re not careful, you can easily delete 
>> music you
>> really might not want to.
>
> It seems that the only criteria is song name. This is pretty dumb, 
> actually,
> since they could have used additional criteria. I have several groups 
> of
> songs with the same names - 801 actually, since a lot of classical 
> music has
> the same names for different movements, and I have a lot of jazz music 
> with
> multiple performances of the same tunes.
>
> Sigh...
>
>
> Kirk
>
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