Get Rid of Duplicates in iTunes

To get rid of duplicates in iTunes, you have two options. First, you can try to do it by manually searching your iTunes collection. Just click a button and your iTunes library will be transformed. Sounds good right? Duplicates in iTunes happen for a variety of reasons. When the music is labeled incorrectly, trying to remove duplicates in iTunes without the help of software is very time consuming. If the information in your iTunes collection is incomplete or inaccurate, it is virtually impossible to tell which tracks are duplicates and you only have a copy.


Fortunately, there are several ways you can scan your iTunes and complete collection and edit incomplete or inaccurate information. Even if a song is labeled "Unknown song" with "unknown artist" Some of the iTunes cleaning most advanced programs can find the actual information for that track. Some of the new generation of software to identify each song fingerprint, which then compares the information in your iTunes library with an online music database. When the information is incomplete or missing some of the smartest own programs can automatically fill in these details.

Once all the tags have been updated by the iTunes software or through each one individually to the next need to identify duplicate groups. You can order your songs in alphabetical order and then just go deleting duplicate tracks. However, the problem with this on your own, without software is that it is difficult to identify which way the copy to keep and which to get rid of doubled. However, some of the best software available these days can also identify the copy is the best quality, then get rid of the others, or mark them as duplicates.

Another advantage of using software instead of trying to organize your iTunes hand is that some of these programs have a feature where they automatically add missing album art to your iTunes collection as well.