How many times we will ever hear our favorite song on your iPod or iPhone, and soon after his term, magically hear it again? Yes, iTunes, no matter how ” smart ” it may be. It seems it is not yet able to find duplicate songs and, in so doing, both the copy indiscriminately on our iPod or iPhone. We can easily solve this problem by simply using a specially developed software to ” Macroplant “, can eliminate duplication. Let’s see how in this guide.
1.) First, you’ll need to have your iTunes updated to version 9.0 or later. In order to do this, go to this link (Freeware), click on the gray button on the left ” Download ” and save the file on our PC. At this point, we just run it with a double-click, follow the installation procedures, and the game is done. Let’s see now what to download and how to configure it, so as to remove the annoying duplicates within our iTunes library.
2.) After updating iTunes, we should download the program that will allow us to remove the ” duplication ” from iTunes. The software in question is called ” meta-iPod. ” To download it, connect us to this link, press the button on the top gray ” Download “, save the file and run it on our PC (also with a simple double-click). After you have given permission to the Windows execution by pressing the ” Yes ” on the first screen that appears, then press ” Next “; now accept the terms by checking the box marked ” I Accept the agreement “, and then we click Next 4 times, until the end of the installation procedure. At this point, we just have to run the program and understand its correct operation.
3.) At this point there is nothing left to do but to open iTunes, then the program meta-iPod and set it properly. Once you open the software in question, we will find ourselves in front of a window, very intuitive. At this point, we simply click on the Start button Analyzing Data Sources, which is located on the right side of the main window of meta-iPod and wait for the software to complete the process of scanning your iTunes library.
4.) When the scan is finished, under the button Duplicate Tracks will be the number of duplicate tracks. To remove them, you’ll just have to push the button in question, and, on the new window that opens, select and deletes the duplicates by clicking the Delete button checked tracks. WARNING! This procedure will remove to duplicate files from your iTunes library is, both from the hard disk of your PC. To avoid doing this (and then allow the program to delete duplicate files only on the iTunes library and not on your hard disk), uncheck the item at the bottom. Upon delete of iTunes date, Also delete the track’s file from the window of working on. Hopefully, we can also click on Auto-suggest tracks to delete within the same window, leaving the task of selecting the program in an intelligent way to delete duplicate files ..