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    Too much music!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by imMACulate, Nov 11, 2007.

  1. imMACulate

    imMACulate Notebook Evangelist

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    OK, I was trying to figure out where my hard drive went and I found that I have 20Gb of music (NOOO!!!!)...OK, is there a way to go through my music folder and delete all the duplicates?
     
    imMACulate, Nov 11, 2007
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  2. Saiko Kila

    Saiko Kila Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yep, the hard way and the hard way. OR you can download some utility like MP3-FileCompare, which crawls through selected directories (even networked ones) and finds duplicates. That will take some time, I think.

    Added: Oh, and my preferred download manager site has this list:
    http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/mp3_duplicates_info/index1.htm
     
    Saiko Kila, Nov 11, 2007
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  3. 00fez

    00fez Notebook Deity

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    Or you can add all of them to the itunes library, and then go to View > Show duplicates. Delete them from the library and send them to the trash.
     
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  4. imMACulate

    imMACulate Notebook Evangelist

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    ahh I think that's probably the easiest way thanks guys
     
    imMACulate, Nov 11, 2007
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  5. StoryR

    StoryR Notebook Geek

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    as I ended up doing it the easy way...but the hard way. I will try to help you out (unless you're not an idiot like me).

    Open it all in iTunes, View>Show Duplicates, and going through the list, remember to hold Ctrl and click the songs and delete all of them at once, I did them all individually.
     
    StoryR, Nov 11, 2007
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    sagebrush Notebook Consultant

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    This is still a hard method, since you are still having to go down the playlist selecting every other track for deletion. I think it is absolutely pathetic that iTunes does not offer an easy way to delete duplicates, considering how easy it creates duplicate files.
     
    sagebrush, Nov 12, 2007
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  7. StoryR

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    agreed, iTunes also won't separate the duplicates even if they are on different albums, which makes it even harder.
     
    StoryR, Nov 12, 2007
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