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iTunes music manager (duplicate eliminator)

post #1 of 3
2/3/10 at 8:01pm
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I recently had to reinstall (reintroduce?)  my substantial music library on my iMac.  I kept getting stuck on the spinning beach ball.   Reinstalling the music helped, but for some reason it decided to read 3-4 copies of all of my songs.   I have no idea why....  

I need to delete all of the duplicate copies.  I have seen software out there for this task - some costs around $15 and some is free.   The free stuff is what scares me, but I hate to throw money away. 

Has anyone here had any experience with these programs / this situation?

Edited by Eric_L - 2/4/10 at 4:51am
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post #2 of 3
2/5/10 at 2:02pm
Perhaps this is too tedious for your situation, but iTunes has a "show duplicates" tool in the menu. You can select and delete the dupes yourself.
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post #3 of 3
2/5/10 at 3:34pm
 It used to be the default setting for iTunes that when you added a song to your library, it copied the file to the iTunes folder.  Do you actually have multiple copies of each song file?
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