In the world of collecting and organizing digital music, you probably have amassed some duplicate tracks in your music library – hundreds even!
In iTunes 10.7 and earlier, Apple had a built-in tool that would find duplicates and put them on a single page. It wasn’t very good, but it helped. In iTunes 11, this feature is missing in action. Luckily, TuneUp has DeDuper, the quickest + easiest way to zap those duplicate tracks and free up valuable space on your portable devices and hard drive. So how do you use DeDuper? We’ll explain, it’s a piece of cake.
LAUNCH DEDUPER
Open TuneUp and click the DeDuper tab once.
To begin, click the “Find Duplicates” button. TuneUp will begin scanning your collection for duplicate tracks. This takes about 1 minute for every 500 tracks in your library.
REVIEW & REMOVE
TuneUp will list all of the duplicate tracks for you to review, grouped by song and confidence level:
-Duplicates: at least 90% confident
-Likely Duplicates: 80% – 90% confident
With each set of duplicates, TuneUp will place a green check mark next to the one with the highest bit rate. This is the recommended track to keep. Those tracks with an X are the duplicates that can be removed.
You can DeDupe one set of songs at a time by clicking the “DeDupe” button next to each result. Or, you can DeDupe an entire bin at once by clicking the “DeDupe All” button.
GIVE YOURSELF A HIGH FIVE
That’s it! We told you it would be easy. Now you have a fresh and clean library without all those annoying dupes. Big win.
A FEW TIPS…
TuneUp does not permanently delete the duplicate tracks that you remove from your music library. Instead, they are placed in a folder called “TuneUp Duplicates”, located on your hard drive.
You can access all of the tracks you have removed from your music library using DeDuper by clicking the “History” sub-tab within DeDuper.
For more help with DeDuper, click here.
