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DESCRIPTION
iDupe is a smart duplicates scanner for iTunes. It tries to deal with duplicate songs or albums in iTunes in a smart way.
Features:
- Can make smart judgement calls about duplicates
- Lets you make final judgement calls before removing or deleting anything
- Can remove tracks from playlist and/or library relatively fast
- Can move files to trash and also trash empty parent folders
Detailed feedback is needed about areas where you wanted iDupe to make a different call than it did.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.8:
- Better handling of tracks with no ID3 tags.
- Fixed hanging issue involving scanning tracks without tags when an album folder has a massive number of files.
- iDupe attempts to guess at artist and track name based on the file name for tracks without tags.
- Fixed issue preserving playlists when a track is missing artist or album tags.
- Fixed similar issue when restoring dead tracks when a track is missing those tags.
- Rewrote more portions to rely less on the Finder (now almost not at all). This increases speed generally.
- Improved portion relating to evaluating whether an album has more files of a certain type (mp3, m4a, m4p, ogg, flac).
- Better handling of .ogg files, especially .ogg bit rates.
- Added timeout handling to the initial "checking selection portion" of the scan.
- Better handling of time outs overall.
- Partial results now available if scan is cancelled.
- Fixed initial non-appearance of scan progress bar when scanning very large selections.
- Improved debug logging.
- Debug log cleared when toggling debug mode is toggled.
- Tweaks to iGotta dead track scanning feature.
- Clean up some documentation.
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- iTunes 7 or higher
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| iDupe User Reviews (12 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 8 2005 |
RHETT This sort of thing should be freeware. It's a great program but so limited in use, scale, and functionality I don't get how it can be shareware. Even at $8. From my perspective freeware is the kind of app you use once and forget about, or at best occassional use. Shareware, the kind you buy, is an application that does something you're going to need regularly that performs an important maybe even unique function. iTunes already has the basic feature out, iDupe certainly expands upon it and improves it. But how often you use this app significantly undercuts its commercial value. Unless you operate your computer under dubious patterns checking your iTunes library regularly for duplicates isn't something you're going to do. Maybe once or twice a year, but even that's pushing it.
(Version 1.4) | |
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| Mar 6 2008 |
DONPERREAULT I found Dupin to be much more accurate and faster duplicate scanner. Dupin can be found at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ Along with numerous iTune scripts. Very impressive collection of scripts.
(Version 2.3) | |
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| Jul 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Actually this takes the iTunes dupes to the next level (albeit not perfect). I have a huge collection that it cannot parse. So give iDupe only the duplicate songs that iTunes find and it find actual dupes. Then it automatically selects the lowest bitrate song and gives you the option to delete it.
(Version 1.3.1) | |
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| Aug 18 2008 |
MATBIC This is not the one for you if you have a lot of duplicates. It will only process about 2000 files at one time. So you have to select them in batches to process them in iDupe. This makes it a very "hands on" affair to de-dupe a lot of files so you have to keep watching it and selecting the next batch of files. It has great functionality when dealing with up to 2000 files at a time. Look at Dupin it handles lots of files in one go, you just point it at your Music folder and leave it to it. Great software except for this one point.
(Version 2.5.2) | |
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| Sep 5 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This si especially handy if you have an iPod with limited space - but WHY OH WHY isn't this function truly built into iTunes already? Some say it is, but I don't think they get it. iTunes will find anything you're searching for, but doesn't intelligently or automatically find duplicates. This is also a dupe: same song, slightly different spelling, different bitrates or even a 1 second diference in length.
(Version 1.4.1) | |
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| Jun 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS but I see you have the dead tracks thingie. Good on you.
(Version 1.3) | |
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| Jun 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Anybody who's not babbling and drooling on his shoes is capable of keeping duplicates out of a library merely by intelligent organization of artist and title data. If you had an app that scanned the library for missing .mp3 files, then you'd have something. Then again, I guess only the droolers will need that feature, too. But my hat's off to you for creating an app that helps out all the droolers out there.
(Version 1.3) | |
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 | Jun 29 2005 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS iDupe can in fact try to intelligently replace dead tracks, which is what I take it you mean by scanning for missing .mp3s. Also, I should say that I developed this application first for myself. My tags are in great order--it's just that my library is huge. Sometimes I acquire new albums, but already had some of those tracks as singles in my library, or had bad rips of the album, or whatever. Also, I frequently move mp3s around among hard drives, re-adding them to my library, and sometimes forget or couldn't be bothered to remove the old associations from iTunes. If you're the type that adds one new album a week, you don't need a tool like this. If you get music from multiple sources and are adding music frequently, you probably would have a use for it.
(Version 1.3) | |
| Jul 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I'm guessing you don't have 20 gigs of music.
(Version 1.3) | |
| Jul 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I have about 76 Gigs of MP3s :) This app can be very helpful, thank you!
(Version 1.3.1) | |
 | Jun 22 2005 |
TIMPLASTER Finally!!! Thank you!
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Jun 12 2005 |
STEVE Great app! It's done what the others haven't been able to do for me so far-- intelligent searching. Thanks!
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Aug 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Good Idea - even though iTune finds duplicates itself, there is no easy way to delete them just from one playlist or the bibl. without affecting the bought music list. Anyway - for me it not usable because of the following: I have a est. 11,000 songs in the bibl. And there are doubles e.g. same Artist, same Song, different Album. For Dupe these are doublettes. So I still have to check manually. While the bibl. keeps growing it is somewhat painful....
(Version 1.4.1) | |
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