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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 2.7
- Compatibility adjustments for iTunes 9.
- iTunes LP always considered keeper album given any duplicate album. (see advanced info to disable).
- Possible to scan iTunes U playlist.
- Major changes under-the-hood to cope with certain problem file systems and architectures.
- Above changes minimize use of the Finder, which makes iDupe faster on other systems.
- Above changes fixed compiler issue with intel Macs running Leopard that returned -3 errors when scanning in iDupe 2.6
- Above changes may make iDupe compatible with file vault systems but this still needs testing (volunteers?)
- Changed iTunes version handling to cope with future iTunes versions greater than 9.
- When counting album files, obvious copies are not counted.
- Debug logs can now be accessed on the info tab.
- Debug logging improved.
- Group Scan mode now default for new users.
- Minor interface tweaks.
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 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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| Mar 11 2008 |
CV I would not buy anything from this company. I paid my $8.00 by mistake thinking there was a windows version. I was told there was not. I was also told that there was no refund and then berated by these people. There are plenty of other apps that do the same thing and probably better. Don't waste your money dealing with these people.
(Version 2.3) | |
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 | Apr 1 2008 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS One of the ways WBC keeps prices low is to insist on a try before you buy policy. We value the spirit of shareware, which is that you pay when you are satisfied. We do not monitor registration codes, and we issue refunds only in the rare case the product doesn't work as described and it cannot be fixed. The fact that iDupe and other WBC is Mac only is stated clearly in many places on the WBC web site, including the FAQ and directly below the "Buy Now" button. For some reason, Windows users seem unwilling to read a very sparse product description -- let alone the FAQ or the refund policy -- before clicking buy.
(Version 2.4) | |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Jul 10 2005 |
NEVAEH $8...are you kidding me? save your money folks, if you didnt know iTunes already finds duplicate songs for you for $FREE.99 that's right, in iTunes in your menu bar go to Edit and select "show duplicate songs" and then simply select and delete the uneeded tracks. To get out of this mode you can go back up to edit and select "show all songs" or conveniently at the bottom of the list of duplicates iTunes provides a button that says "show all songs" WOW all that FOR FREE, the developer should be ashamed!
(Version 1.3.1) | |
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| Jul 11 2005 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS I wish people would try stuff before they bash it. Not only do I know iTunes has a show duplicates feature, but I recommend that users use it to scan for duplicates. All iTunes does is show all songs with the same song name as duplicates. It doesn't differentiate among them, or decide which to keep. It doesn't consider which are dead tracks, which are duplicate entries, and it doesn't try to get fuzzy name matches. Once again, if you have a small library and can do this sort of thing manually, you do not need iDupe. If you have a large library, and even going through iTune's list is a chore, you do. Nothing to be ashamed of. I needed it so I wrote it.
(Version 1.3.1) | |
| Jul 15 2008 |
RAMDOCTOR YEA THATS KOOL BUT IF YOU HAVE OVER 20,000 DUPLICATES, YOU'LL BE THERE FOREVER
(Version 2.5.2) | |
| 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) | |
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