How To Remove Duplicate Items From iTunes Library

If you’re running iTunes version 11.0.1 (or higher), iTunes will make it easier to eliminate all duplicate items from the iTunes library. And if you’re running the iTunes 11, you will notice that this specific feature is not available. So as to remove the duplicate items from iTunes library, the very first thing you have to do is upgrade to the most recent version of iTunes. Then follow our guide to remove duplicates from iTunes library.

If you are using the iTunes as your normal “music library manager”, and if you have enabled the iCloud backup, there is a solid opportunity that you turn out to have a couple of duplicates items.

Also, when you navigate around the music files very much (or adjust  the libraries), you could possibly end up with a couple of duplicate items on iTunes.

If it is just a matter of libraries/folders, cleaning the iTunes and after that linking back with the music folder normally perform the trick but that will not be sufficient in other situations.

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How To Remove Duplicates From iTunes Library

1. First off, make sure you’ve got the latest version of iTunes
2. Now, open iTunes.
3. Click on ‘View’
4. Click ‘Show Duplicate Items’
5. (Also make sure Music in the Cloud is visible. You should see a ‘Hide Music in the Cloud’ option)
6. iTunes will automatically filter the content and show only those tracks that have duplicates. Both the tracks will be listed so you can easily remove the one that you don’t want. Now, select the duplicate songs and hit delete.
7. Sometimes, iTunes also shows multiple versions of the same song (remix, reprise etc.). Make sure you don’t end up deleting them in a hurry.

If you only need to pick the right duplicates, then press the Alt when you clicking the View and keep pressing it when clicking the “Show Exact Duplicate Items”.

This is effective but in some cases, if the tracks and albums are not named adequately, then this particular feature will not work nicely. This can be the case simply because you have got a lot more music from outside the iTunes (with or without DRM and so on.)

There are actually software options that perform better than the iTunes. TuneUpMedia is certainly one of them we have observed excellent reviews about it so you can try this as well.