iTunes Dupes Barrier

Well it did what it claimed, duplicated songs are put into a playlist allowing you to decide which one you wish to delete from the database.

Never, never, never use this crap. Ok. You can use it if you have backup or a month to restore your library from CD.

The new version 1.2.2 is indeed compatible with iTunes 7.7.1. I really appreciate this software's flexibility in how duplicates are to be found. Good effort & work by the developer.

This does not work with iTunes 7 and my iPod. After sending the developer 20 emails with error codes so they could debug their product they tell me they don't know how. Then they have the testes to refuse a refund as it worked with iTunes 6 so they're not responsible! Definately not recommended. A rip off.

This doesn't add anything that I can see beyond what iTunes own "Show Duplicates" command already does. It does have the option to search for duplicates on an iPod, which might be useful if you manually manage your iPod, but not doing this myself and that may also "duplicate" iTunes own function. A much better option is iDupe, which does what is really needed: isolate a set of potential duplicates and pick the best one according to a number of options, and then give you the choice to delete all but that one. It also will deal with a large selection of tracks at a time, so you don't have to manually push delete for each one, while still giving you the chance to adjust which track(s) to keep first. iDupe also lets you retain stuff like played count, ratings, playlists, etc. It also deals with dead tracks a lot better, and includes fuzzy matching. Moreover not only is it cheaper, you can pretty much use it unrestricted for as long as you want before paying for it. The thing is neither Dupes Barrier or iDupe work unless your ID3 tags are somewhat accurate. If you want music fingerprint matching you have to go with something like Phelix, which I haven't tried, but by its very nature would have to be incredibly slow and even the description page for it is a major CPU hog.

You can find an Applescript that does this for free at Doug's Applescripts for iTunes. http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php

iTunes 7 under the view menu has the option to View Duplicates.

how many of other programs do you have that have the same features in the original program? How do you get by?

I don't need this, iTunes already does this. What I need is a tool to find songs that have NOT been put in to playlists, with a music library of over 5000 songs, doing that your self can be a pain! And songs can get lost forever! iPhoto has a App for that, why can't iTunes?

Well, it does find the duplicates. however, in the list page, it shows both, so I still have to go through and delete one by one, as if I were to delete both listings, there would be none of that track... Isn't that what iTunes already does? Unless I am missing something, this may not be the best way to spent $10.00