ITunes Ipod Deduping - Freeware?

[MNAirHead]

Howdy.

I'm sure other fellow obsessives have this issue - migrating data with dupes. I like having 20,000 songs.. over the years seems as if Apple fake turns this into 25,000 songs.

I'm cool with multiple songs on different records --- it's the creating/duping a record during migration/synch.

Any advice OR applets that fix this issue?

Thank You

Timmy

[OriginalCrash]

Wait, your problem is that over time, iTunes has mysteriously copied whole albums, such that you have duplicates of multiple songs??? To my knowledge, I have never had that problem... And that's with syncing to my iPod and even occasionally transferring files to a hard drive and back (like when I did a custom install of Windows 7). I don't really know what could be causing your problem...?

[grrrr!!!!]

Don't know if this helps

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1417?

[MNAirHead]

Thanks.. any one know of any (cr)applets that merge/purge/dedupe.

Thanks .. will read the link

[Frank Tuesday]

Originally Posted by grrrr!!!!

Don't know if this helps

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1417?

The only problem with that method is it only looks at song titles. Different bands with the same song title pop up. Different versions by the same band pop up. I get 6000 duplicates when I do that. I'm guessing I only have a couple hundred actual duplicates.

[DrewinHouston]

I got a lot of dupes when I started converting files to different formats (for example, to MP3 to load on my Tascam Bass Trainer). There is a built-in utility in iTunes that will help you find duplicates. I just turned on the column for file format (it's called something else, sorry I don't have iTunes on this computer). I deleted the duplicates that were MP3 file format. I also had some duplicates from letting iTunes go and look in other places on my hard drive, it found my backup disk and duplicated a bunch of stuff.