Two Method to Show Duplicates in iTunes 11

How to show and remove duplicate items in iTunes library? This guide will introduce two shareware iTunes duplicate finders in detail.

Show Exact Duplicate Items in iTunes library

show exact duplicates in iTunes

To manage duplicate songs in iTunes library, Apple offers users an ability to find duplicate items in iTunes 11. Make sure you have updated to the latest version. Go to "iTunes" menu and choose "Check for Updates". If you get the latest version of iTunes, go forward to "View"->"Show Duplicate Items". However, the iTunes library duplicates finder doesn't work with effect. It displays iTunes songs that share similar character string and can't match copies accurately. Don't worry, and you can hold the alt key on Mac OS X and select "View"->"Show Exact Duplicate Items". This option will display only duplicate mp3 songs with the same name, artist and album.

Choose duplicates items option

How to find and remove duplicate songs in iTunes library? It seems that this problem has been easily solved by the iTunes duplicates finder. But just don't make a hasty decision. Although iTunes library displays duplicate items, you have to compare these items according to track length, play count and so on. To determine which songs you would like to remove one by one, I think it will be a boring manual process. It's not so easy for us to manage duplicates in the iTunes library. I strongly wish Apple Company repaired this iTunes library bug. I suggest that our users should send this comment to Apple official website.

The second method is to take the third party program. Imelfin Tunes Cleaner cleans up iTunes duplicates with only one "Remove Duplicates" button. It offers a friendly user interface and searches for duplicates in iTunes. Most of all, it will help you save much time to quickly delete duplicates in iTunes.

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Show iTunes Duplicate Songs in Tunes Cleaner

Run Tunes Cleaner

There are four options when you launch the software. Go forward to select "Clean-up Duplicates". For the "Start to Clean iTunes", it will fix all the songs without Album Artwork.

Tunes Cleaner

Show Duplicate Songs

Please select one scanning mode to search for duplicates in iTunes. The first mode is to tick "Quick Scan" which only find the iTunes library duplicates. If you back up all the songs on the local hard drive, click "Add" button to locate the folders and set the second mode. Then the deep scan will help you locate and remove all duplicate items. The number of duplicates is the same as we use iTunes library to find duplicates.

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Tunes Cleaner removes duplicates in iTunes 11 with ease. We can also deselect the songs which you want to keep in the iTunes library.

Show iTunes Duplicates in Tunes Cleaner

Remove duplicates in iTunes 11

Just click "Remove" Button and it will take a while to delete duplicates. If you accidentally delete the copy file in the wrong way, click the small yellow circle to revert it. If we feel this method will be lack of an automation, we can set the clean-up options under the settings. From now on, the iTunes assistance will help us remove duplicates songs in iTunes on MAC OS X at a fixed period.

Remove duplicates in iTunes 11

Let's launch iTunes library again and navigate to "View" > "Show Duplicate Items" in the main menu. There are not any duplicate items in itunes playlist. Now we already finish the weight-loss program for iTunes library.

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