Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
Yes! Thank you. I'm going to venture into apple script world to try this. I accidently made some copies of some files in my library. And I bought Ben Fold's latest album last September. It downloaded and played jus fine but about a month or two later I was getting a notice and two of every

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks very much for this very helpful description and fix! I'll get on this and my hard drive will thank you... Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Esther
Hi Mark, Jenny, Dean, and Others, You have a few options to search for duplicate tracks in iTunes. One is to use the "Show Duplicates" option under the File menu of iTunes' menu bar after selecting a library in the sources outline. This lists entries with the same song name, so versions of

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks, Jenny. This is what I was afraid of. One must be careful with this procedure. :) Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm trying to avoid weeding it out by hand, given how huge that folder is. I suppose I could search for every song that has a (1) in it, but that's hit-or-miss at best. Oh well. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://Mark

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Alex
Hi, There is an Applescript fro Dug's Applescripts collection thad does this. Google "Dugs's Applescripts Duplicates free" and you shpuld find it. Regards, Alex, On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Marie Howarth wrote: > > i would love to know the answer to this. I can only tell you I did it > a

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Dean Wilcox
The thing is if you want to keep all songs as you imported them you shouldn't delete jublicates. Say you download a discography of a certain artest, and that folder has folders for albums, singles etc. Now instead of ID3 tagging them all properly many of the singles will be listed from the a

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Scott Howell
You know sometimes the automatic mode although nice could really cause you grief. A good case in point is if you happen to replace some lower quality files with higher quality files, but did not remove the lesser files first. Problem becomes expecting iTunes to know which you would rathe

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
Hi Mark, I have this same problem. In iTunes, I forget where in the menus, the iTunes menu or file menu there are options for show duplicates. it will list all the repeat files and you can go in and manually dell them. If there is an automatic way I'm sorry but I dont know that. HTH ##

Re: duplicates in Itunes library

2009-07-28 Thread Marie Howarth
i would love to know the answer to this. I can only tell you I did it all by hand which was painstaking. I honestly believe apple could make it easier on us and when you highlight all duplicates, to be shown, it gives you the option to delete only the duplicates. if you hit show all duplic