How to Delete Duplicates in iTunes 10

Posted by: organize-itunes on: 07/03/2011

Deleting Duplicates in iTunes 10 can be as easy as clicking a button.

You just need to know the right software to do the job.

It is possible to delete duplicates in iTunes 10 without the help of any extra software – since iTunes version 4.7 there has been the feature to display duplicates in iTunes. However this feature is only as good as the meta data in your collection! If songs are incorrectly labelled or have missing information then iTunes won’t know that they are duplicates. As most people’s music collections are full of missing information, ‘unknown artists’ and songs incorrectly categorized then you really need help in deleting duplicates in iTunes.

The answer to this problem is Rinse. Rinse is a nifty and user friendly program which sole purpose in life is to completely spring clean your iTunes library!

The first thing this program does when it gets its hands on your iTunes collection is to sort out all the meta data. Meta data is all the tags or labels each song has e.g. track name, album name, artist name, genre, year etc etc

How to Delete Duplicates in iTunes 10 with Rinse

Usually a lot of meta data information is inaccurate, wrong or just plain not there. Well Rinse doesn’t care wither way. It checks each song against an online database and uploads the correct information for each track. It doesn’t even matter if ALL the meta data for a track is completely wrong, so if ‘Billy Jean’ is labelled as “No Woman No Cry” Rinse will still know that it is really the Michael Jackson track and label it as such. Don’t believe me? Why not try the free trial here:

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For extra fun why not change all the meta tags in your songs and see if Rinse can sort it out! Believe me you will be amazed.

After Rinse has sorted out all the meta data it is a breeze to delete all duplicates in iTunes 10 or in fact any version of iTunes (I just put 10 as its the latest version). Whilst you would now be able to delete duplicates without Rinse as all the meta data is accurate, using Rinse still has one HUGE advantage. Rinse analyzes each track to see its quality and bit rate then deletes the lower quality track. This is great as if you ended up with a load of poor quality tracks it would defeat the purpose! Using this programme gives you the guarantee that the tracks you keep will be the best quality in your collection and the one you delete from iTunes are rubbish that you don’t need. (Actually you can keep duplicates instead of deleting, Rinse gives you the option of marking them as duplicate tracks.)

OK so Rinse sounds pretty cool right? Well there is more! Whilst Rinse is checking your meta data it also checks to see if you have the correct album artwork for each track. If it is incorrect or missing it adds that in too! Wow!

Why not try the free trial today – your iTunes collection will thank you for it.