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How to Delete iTunes Duplicate Songs Individually?

First, find the duplicate songs in iTunes.

1. Open the iTunes app on Mac or Windows.

2. On older iTunes version, click View > Show Duplicates. On versions later than iTunes 12, click Find > Library > Show Duplicated Items.

3. Then you will see a list of iTunes duplicate songs. Go check the song's info (release data, genre, release date, etc.).

4. If you have stored different versions of a song, hold the Alt or Option key (Mac) or the Shift key (Windows) and click File > Library > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display the duplicated songs.

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Second, how to delete duplicates in iTunes.

1. After you sort out the duplicate songs in iTunes library, hold Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) key and select multiple duplicate songs you want to remove.

2. Click Song button from the top menu bar and select Delete from Library. Then click Delete from the popping up window.

3. After the duplicate songs are deleted from iTunes library, click Done and that's all.

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How to Mass Delete iTunes Duplicate Songs?

'My iTunes music library has duplicated my entire music library. I can delete these duplicates individually but it will take me possibly hundreds of hours. How can I mass delete duplicates in iTunes?'

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Using iTunes to find and delete duplicate songs is easy, but doesn't necessarily mean fast. Apple provides an option to show all duplicates, no option to remove all of them with one click. It could be a daunting task using iTunes features to manually select and remove all the duplicates of the whole iTunes music library, especially there are tons of tracks. As a matter of fact, music lovers nagged by such problem are not in the minority. Luckily, there are paid and free apps to bulk delete duplicates in iTunes with huge time savings. Below are two famous iTunes duplicates removers that you can download and try.

* Dupin Lite (OS X)

* DeDuper (Windows)

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Why does iTunes Duplicate Songs?

Sometimes, new duplicate tracks appear with little cloud icons right after the duplicates are deleted. To stop iTunes from duplicating songs any more in the future, we have to go to the root of the problem. Currently, Apple doesn't provide an official reason for why duplicates are being created in iTunes, but there are a few things that may cause the problem concluded by experienced Apple users.

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1. Tracks purchased or downloaded elsewhere (ripped from CD, downloaded online, shared with friends, purchased from artists' site, other stores, etc) will be copied. You may see a little cloud icon with an X on it, indicating that the song is stored in the iTunes the library in the cloud but not from iTunes.

2. If the iTunes is set to copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library (default option) and the same songs are repeatedly imported from outside the media folder or are added from an external drive that saves the media folder that was offline when iTunes was launched.

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3. Songs untagged will be sorted into Unknown Artist/Unknown Album in iTunes with the name <Filename>.