Remove duplicate songs in iTunes 11

As correctly noted, our reader Gregory Ushar in one of the previous article about iTunes 11The new version of media player mysteriously disappeared feature remove duplicate songs, and for both platforms OS X and Windows. Then we made the assumption, saying razrabotchki simply forgotten to move or adapt this the possibility of a renewal program that is likely to be fixed in the near minor apdeyte application. And so it happened - last week released version iTunes 11.0.1, and in addition to other functional changes have been added to delete duplicate songs.

• Press «View» to the system menyubare OS X and select «Show Duplicate Items».
• iTunes automatically displays the way in front of you all duplicate tracks.

Nothing complicated, right? However, there is a pretty important detail - on this screen in front of you show both duplicate songs, so you can not just select all the items and move them to the Trash. In other words, in this case, you not only remove duplicates, but also original compositions. Spend a couple of minutes of free time, you do not accidentally delete the files you want - with the correct length of the audio track and a higher sound quality.

By the way, if you activate this feature, you can hold down the Option key and use the option «Show Exact Duplicates» (ie the display is completely identical copies).

It should also be noted that duplicate elements are displayed depending on the selected at the present time the library. Most makovodov use this function to remove duplicate songs from the Music tab, so it should not be a difficulty.

Hopefully in future updates iTunes Apple engineers do not come to mind again ruled out this possibility from the arsenal of functions media player, because it free hard disk space is quite useful for cleaning, especially when a big musical collection.

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