How to Delete Duplicate Songs from iTunes on MAC or Windows PC
New updated iTunes version has the option to Delete duplicate contents from iTunes as well as from your computer hard disk.
As a regular iTunes user, you are aware of the duplicate contents as well as songs in your iTunes playlist. When user delete his song from iTunes playlist library, it might possible that duplicate copy of that song will be remain on your hard disk of computer. You need to remove that duplicate song too with the original one which you had deleted before.
Actually, Apple had somehow removed a feature called “Duplicate Files or Items” from iTunes 11 that could find duplicate songs, videos and all kind of contents related to iTunes from your computer and allows you to delete them forever. It was too difficult to find out duplicate content and delete them without finding them.
However, If you have updated to new version of iTunes, thats 11.1.3.8, then, you have noticed “Show Duplicate Items” option from iTunes 11.1.3.8 or above. Apple re-included that feature again as a fix in the latest release of iTunes. I would recommend you, always update your iTunes with the latest version to avail the latest features.
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How to Permanently Remove Music
1 Before all, you should update your iTunes to the latest release, because most probably it would have the option to show duplicate songs, videos and apps.
2 Open iTunes. You have to look duplicate file option in View menu, so, click on View Menu.
3 Now choose “Show duplicate Items” from View menu. iTunes will filter up all the results and show you all the duplicates songs, videos and other contents from where you can delete them too.
Note: It might show multiple version of the same track of song such as remix, reprise etc. Don’t hurry in deleting all duplicate songs at once. Choose them wisely.
4 Select them and delete by pressing delete button from your PC, however, I would recommend you to press Ctr+Delete button (Windows PC) and Option+Delete button (OS X) to delete them entirely from iTunes library.
Conclusion
If you regularly use iTunes for songs, videos and apps, I have another recommendation for you. You can try iTools, that’s a best iTunes alternative. It has more features than iTunes.
If you have anything else to ask, please leave your query in the comments, I will try to solve it out…
For some reason a lot of my songs have duplicated, tripled or even quadrupled. it’s very annoying because i can’t play an album straight through. Therefore I searched on Google and found a good software. It is called Music
Cleanup. Surprisingly with the program I delete all the duplicates all at once.
I have iPhone 5S with lots of contents specially songs and videos. I was looking tutorial to remove all the duplicate entries from playlist. How to delete songs from iPhone and iTunes both at the same time?
Great! same here, I was also looking for the same to delete songs from my iPad Mini with the same issue
please help someone
I have tried it on both MAC and Windows PC. I personally have experienced that iTunes works better and faster on MAC comparing to Windows Operating system.
I’ll try iTools for MAC soon
It worked for me, I have remove all my double song entries from iTunes using MAC
I’ve iPad Air and because it was newest, I downloaded songs multiple times in hurry, so, I had to remove them
Anyways, thanks for tut dear
Great tips,
Btw, if you are on Windows operating system, its too tough to get duplicate songs and remove them.
Is there any other shortcut way to get rid of duplicate contents for ever?
Why you don’t read above post clearly? alex has mentioned all the things clearly. Just select duplicate songs from your iTunes library and press Ctr+Delete button from your Windows PC, that’s it.
Does it work on iPad Air iOS 9.1.x?