Mac Tips Daily! #106 - iTunes Duplicates

If you have a large music library like I have, you may have some duplicate songs in your iTunes library. Some albums have the same songs on them, or maybe you have multiple versions of some podcasts. Here is how to find out what's in your library. Open 'iTunes' Next, click on the 'Library' icon in the 'Source' pane on the left. This will show you full iTunes library in the right hand pane. Now, go to the 'iTunes' menu, and choose 'Edit->Show Duplicate Songs' In the right hand pane, it will list all of the songs that have duplicates, that it can detect. If you intend on deleting any of these, be sure to only delete ONE of any particular song. Since this is listing all of the song duplicates -- if you select everything, and delete them, you have deleted all copies of that song, and you probably don't want that to happen. Take notice that I have multiple copies of my 'Mac Tips' ... but I really only want one of them, so I will have to go through and manually select ONE of each duplicate, and delete it. Even if you don't want to delete songs, this is a great way to find out where you have redundancy in your iTunes library.