Get Rid Of iTunes Duplicate Songs
25 April 2012
For most people, it is the one of the most annoying feelings in the world when they have to listen to the same song again and again. It is quite a spoiler and wastes a lot of time for people, especially when they are on their way to work or school or college, to wait in the middle, get their hands free and change the song. It is not just a tedious thing to do, but also very irritating. So in order to avoid these nuisances, one must know just how to get rid of i-tunes duplicates. This article aims to lay down the measure that can be adopted for getting rid of duplicates in itunes.
For most of the iTunes players, there is an in-built remover of duplicate songs which can be used in the following manner. Firstly one has to spot the ‘file’ option below the title bar at the top of the screen, on selecting which there will be a drop down menu, in which there will be an option towards the bottom of the list which says, ‘display duplicates’. Now the trouble with selecting this option is that is displays all the songs of that particular song name, even if they are of different versions, albums or artists, which happens very often because a lot of times, there are two songs of the same name from two very different time periods.
Therefore, to overcome this obstacle, one can press the shift key for sometime. When this is done, there is an option which reads, ‘display exact duplicates’, on selecting which there will before the user, a list of the exact duplicates of a particular song. One can then select all the duplicate copies which have to be deleted and then click on ‘edit’ and then ‘delete’. When this is done, all the duplicate copies of that specific song will be deleted from iTunes.