Deleting iTunes Duplicates using Rinse
Its tiring to deal with iTunes duplicates and a very disorganized music library. If you have ever spent hours and hours trying to remove duplicates from iTunes by hand, you can now relax as there’s a quick and easier solution to solve this ever growing problem. The solution is in the form of a plug-in called Rinse which is down-loadable which can actually delete the duplicate files in iTunes automatically.
This plug-in works by scanning through your entire music collection and identifying all of your iTunes songs which are duplicated. The next step it does is to allow you to either delete the duplicate songs automatically or tag them with word “duplicate” and delete them later for yourself.
How to delete iTunes duplicates automatically:
ñ Open the iTunes program.
ñ Download the latest version of Rinse.
ñ Install the latest version of Rinse
ñ Use the ‘Find Duplicates’ feature in iTunes.
ñ Wait as the songs get analyzed.
For first time users there is a special offer where you get to download the free trial version of the program with a limited usage period.
Duplicate files and “track 01″s are the biggest challenges facing many iTunes user’s libraries the world over.
If you have a huge music collection made up of thousands of mp3 files downloaded from all over the world wide web and you import your songs into your iTunes, you will encounter some compatibly issues every time. And iTunes has to convert them to the correct format.
Duplicate iTunes tracks, incorrect id3 tags and sound files are just a few of the glitches you might encounter when importing your music into iTunes.
Depending size of the duplicate problem, Rinse can automatically remove the duplicates from iTunes. Some of Rinse’s features include: Ability to eliminate iTunes Duplicates, organize the music in genres,
its able to organize music in genres, it can also find missing album cover art, also it does fix broken and missing tags and Its 100% Automatic.
Rinse is great the program actually scans through each one of your songs and allows you to later completely restore your library back to order if something goes wrong.
The second option is removing the duplicates by hand using the tool provided in iTunes. There are a some major problems associated with using this method. You can never be sure you will delete the right file. Some times the duplicates differ in quality and length.
The second problem happens if you have any missing or wrong song or media information. With incorrect information, your iTunes will not be able to identify the song as a duplicates and you have to delete them by hand. Which can be a daunting task depending on the size of your library.
To do this manually follow the following steps; Select the Music Tab in iTunes >> Go to File and click Display Duplicates.>> Select the duplicates you wish to delete.>> Press DELETE >> a dialog message will appear asking if you are sure.
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