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Top Tip! Removing Duplicate and Dead Tracks From iTunes Library
Submitted by admin on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 10:42.
As your iTunes media collection grows you end-up having lots of duplicate and dead media in your iTunes library, the duplicate remover functionality provided by iTunes is very limited and you have to do everything manually, if you are on a Mac there exist quite a few handy AppleScripts and utilities to get rid of those dead and duplicate tracks, but if you are using iTunes on Windows finding a similar solution is hard, luckily after searching a lot I finally found a working solution for Windows users, enabling them to clean their iTunes Library automatically with ease.
Pretty similar to the popular Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes on Mac, Teridon's iTunes Scripts gets the job done on Windows.
Using Teridon's iTunes Scripts is very easy, all you need to do is to launch the executable and select the desired functionality and click "Run selected Script", a DOS windows will pop-up providing further instructions specific to selected functionality as demonstrated below visually.
Tracks Before Duplicates Removal
Teridon's Duplicate Removal Script In Action
Tracks After Duplicates Removed
I tested these scripts with latest version iTunes 8.0.2 and they worked fine, perl source codes of the script can be found in the src folder, Teridon's iTunes Scripts can be downloaded here for free.
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Teridon's iTunes scripts
Looking forward to test driving this. Especially if it can discern the different Tracks without names.
teridons itunes scripts
The script for removing dead tracks doesn't work.
removing dead tracks
I just ran the script for removing dead tracks and it worked perfectly. Something that would have taken me several hours to do manually only took 30 seconds with this script. Thanks!
removing dead tracks - suceess!
I also had great success in removing my dead tracks easily and I had 9000+ files to remove. Thank you!!! I'll be sending a donation!
Amazing Script
Thanks Man!
Worked like a charm, thanks.
Worked like a charm, thanks. be sure to type 1,2,3,4,5 when prompted.
Sucks for removing duplicates with different paths
Didn't work for me... Still have over a thousand duplicates
same here, this program only
same here, this program only works on exact path duplicates. It did nothing for files that share the same name but have different paths.
Works great!
If you make sure to read the prompt and select all of the items your duplicates are in, it works in just a few minutes. Step away, make a cup of coffee, come back and you're done. Free, small file size, and no installation necessary. Great program!
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