I want to recommend a program for finding and removing duplicates. I use it regularly and I like it. It is Duplicate Finder https://manyprog.com/duplicate-finder-mac.php
Any interruption in internet connectivity causes the info downloads to crash. the only recourse is to restart. I have done this on my library for the 5th time and have yet to complete a scan and download of info to fix my data.
Seems to work well. It trashed many duplicates, but found a bunch more after shutting down both iTunes, and Tune Sweeper. i know I selected many of them on the first try.
Some easy to add features I'd like:
I'd like a preference where instead of selecting a file with a location path vs. a file that needs to be downloaded, it picks the download to be deleted..
I'd like to be able to rearrange the columns. I would have moved the location columns left, so I could see then end of the file name.
I'd like to bbe able to see the whole file name to pick the proper file to delete.
I' d like to pick the columns that are shown or not.
I'd like a Size column.
After 30 minutes of fiddling with it, still simply does not work.
"no duplicate tracks were found!" even as I'm sitting here looking right at them.
Don't make the same mistake I made, save your money.
I was overwhelmed by the amount of duplicate songs I had in my iTunes library. It would have taken me a lifetime to go through and delete them all. Luckily, I found Tune Sweeper which is excellent!
I firstly downloaded the free demo, to see if the software was worth investing in. I was pleasantly surprised when the sweeper had scanned through my iTunes library in seconds. It returned a list of my duplicate songs, laid out nicely in groups.
At this point, I purchased the software because I wanted to remove the duplicates. Tune Sweeper gives you the option to set a preference of songs to keep, and will delete the rest automatically for you! This is something I couldn't have done using iTunes, and I was able to keep all of my highest quality songs, and deleted my low quality duplicates.
Overall, this software is amazing, and I haven't even explored all of the features yet! (you can download missing artwork for your tracks, fix track information etc..). I would highly recommend Tune Sweeper to anyone who needs to clean up their iTunes library, or make more space on their computer!
This is an amazing Application, I’m completely blown away by its effectiveness as well as by how simple it is to use. I absolutely love its features and it has a great cool interface.
I can use it on my Mac as well as on my Dell laptop. I always seemed to have an issue with music on my iTunes because I always ended up adding the same songs mistakenly from different folders. This means that my playlists always contained duplicate files, lots of them too. I searched around diligently for a good program and like a stroke of magic I finally found Tune Sweeper which was the most effective program available on the market to help resolve my situation.
I noticed the program looked for and grouped these duplicate files to make it completely simple for me to deal with them.
It gave me the option to select which tracks to keep automatically, such as the ones with the Highest Quality. I think it also gave me the choice to decide to keep the ones with the Longest duration or Latest added just to name a few of the options. The program then removed over 300 duplicate items from a long playlist, and now I have more space to add more music on my iPod. All in all, a great app.
I am very disappointed: I had several duplicates in my library. These duplicates were duplicates not as acutal files but as the links into my library. E.g. the song "xy" was listet twice in the library but only once available as acutal file. In other words, two link to one file.
What tunes sweeper did: it deleted all my music files that just had two links into my library, resulting that 243 songs were noch available anymore... I only wanted to have removed the duplicate link, not the one file. Really stupid, now I do have more work than before... useless in that case, sorry, really disappointing!
Further, of those albums with the duplicates, it also deleted the album picture. thumbs down again!
VERY DISAPPOINTING! not worth the money so far!
Simply fantastic. Worked like a charm. And finally solved my long-standing problem of my iTunes doubling every track in my library and ended wading through endless support threads not really solving the problem.
Worth every penny and lots of features.
Can someone please tell me if this works with iTunes Match? My main library is on an old machine running OS X 10.5. My only 10.7 machine is my laptop, which only contains a portion of my entire library.
I didn't fancy going through iTunes manually and deleting duplicates one-by-one, so I'm happy to have found Tune Sweeper. It did an excellent job removing thousands of duplicates from my iTunes library. Highly recommended.
This is by far the most superior itunes cleaner I've used, it removed all duplicate files from my huge library without missing any in a very short time, they say you get what you pay for, and I believe it's a very cheap price for both the amount of space I've claimed back, and the feeling of having a clean, organized itunes library. Brilliant software.
