How To Find Duplicate Items in iTunes

Find duplicates

1. Find every instance of that item in your library: Choose File > Library > Show Duplicate Items.
2. Find exact duplicates: Hold down the Shift key, then choose File > Library > Show Exact Duplicate Items.

1. How do I find and delete duplicates in iTunes?
2. How do I mass delete duplicates in iTunes?
3. How do I find duplicate songs on my iPhone?
4. Why do I have duplicates in my iTunes library?
5. Can iTunes delete duplicate songs automatically?
6. How do I clean up iTunes?
7. How do I delete duplicate songs?
8. Why are my songs duplicated on my iPhone?
9. How do I get rid of duplicates on my iPhone?
10. How do I delete duplicate playlists on my iPhone?
11. How do I stop duplicates in iTunes?
12. Does iTunes make a copy of every song?

How do I find and delete duplicates in iTunes?

iTunes has the built-in feature to find and delete duplicate items.

1. Open iTunes. Choose Songs in the Library section.
2. Go to the menu bar, choose File > Library >Show Duplicate Items.
3. Select the duplicate item you want to delete. From the menu bar, go to Song > Delete.

How do I mass delete duplicates in iTunes?

Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove.

How do I find duplicate songs on my iPhone?

View and Delete iTunes Duplicates

The View Duplicates feature of iTunes shows all the songs that have the same song name and artist name. Here's how to use it: Open iTunes on your computer. Select File in the iTunes menu bar, select Library in the drop-down menu, then choose Show Duplicate Items.

Why do I have duplicates in my iTunes library?

iTunes may create duplicates if the same content is repeatedly added from outside the media folder when it is set to make copies of anything that is added to the library, or is added from an external drive that hosts the media folder that was offline when iTunes was launched.

Can iTunes delete duplicate songs automatically?

How to Automatically Delete Duplicates in iTunes

1. Launch iTunes on your computer. ...
2. Click the "File" menu, and then select "Show Duplicates" from the drop-down list. ...
3. Click any song and press the "Delete" key. ...
4. Click the "Remove" button. ...
5. Click "Move to Trash."
6. Click "Movies" in the "Library" section of the left menu.

How do I clean up iTunes?

How to clean up and organize your iTunes library

1. Remove iTunes Duplicates.
2. Download missing artwork.
3. Remove missing songs with exclamation points.
4. Add music from your computer to your iTunes library.
5. Fix nameless and incorrectly labelled songs.
6. Back up your library.
7. Extra: Merge multiple different iTunes libraries >

How do I delete duplicate songs?

Delete duplicate files

1. On your Android device, open Files by Google .
2. At the bottom, tap Clean .
3. On the “Duplicate files” card, tap Select files.
4. Select the files you want to delete.
5. At the bottom, tap Delete .
6. On the confirmation dialog, tap Delete .

Why are my songs duplicated on my iPhone?

-From Settings—General—iPhone storage—Music, slide left on All Songs to delete them. -Sync the phone to your computer to redownload the songs. That did it for me. Try iTunes > Preferences > Devices > Reset Sync History and then try syncing once more.

How do I get rid of duplicates on my iPhone?

You can tap on Photos app on iPhone, navigate to the album or folder containing the duplicate photos, tap "Select" on top right of screen, and "Select Items" to be deleted. Once duplicate photos have been selected, tap on the trash can icon on the bottom right of screen to send selected items to trash.

How do I delete duplicate playlists on my iPhone?

Just modify your playlist in iTunes. If you edit the playlist on the device, then iTunes will create a duplicate containing iTunes version when syncing. You can go to iTunes to edit the playlist, delete the old one and sync, and then the duplicate should go away.

How do I stop duplicates in iTunes?

Prevent iTunes from Importing Duplicate Music Files

1. Open iTunes and select Preferences.
2. Now click Advanced.
3. Make sure the checkbox for Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized box is checked.
4. Also, the checkbox for Copy Files to iTunes Media Folder when Adding to Library must also be selected.

Does iTunes make a copy of every song?

Answer: A: Check your iTunes setting: If iTunes is set to "Copy files to the iTunes Music folder when adding to library," iTunes will copy all content that is added to the iTunes library to the iTunes Music folder. And therefor iTunes creates a copy of your music files and leaves the original in place.