iTunes Duplicate Remover

As time goes by and your iTunes library grows larger, it is hard to keep track of what songs you already have and you may end up with duplicates. It can happen when you import songs from a CD more than once, or download music from file sharing sites. Another common way to end up with duplicates is by importing songs from a friend’s music collection.

Whatever the reason, if you have hundreds or thousands of duplicates, it can be very difficult to remove them from your iTunes library. Since there is no function within iTunes to remove duplicates, you may want to try out a third party iTunes duplicate remover.

Itunes Duplicate Remover: Rinse

The program that I used to remove duplicates from iTunes is called Rinse (formerly TidySongs). I will give my personal review here and explain what it does for anybody who is interested in a program that can delete duplicates in iTunes automatically.

I had a lot of duplicates in my library and it really became a problem when I started running out of room on my hard drive. I had to start deleting things from my computer, and my music was taking up the most space. That is when I discovered how many duplicate songs I really had, and I realized I had to clean them out.

Well, I will admit that I tried to do it on my own at first. I am not the most patient person in the world and I quickly got fed up with trying to delete duplicates manually. It is really not a fun task to sit at your computer for that long playing song after song to determine which one to remove.

I started searching for an iTunes duplicate remover program that would automate the process, and that is when I found Rinse. I was pleasantly surprised with it because got rid of my duplicates and it also did a bunch of other things to organize my iTunes library.

I have to say that I was impressed by the results overall. With anything that is automated, it is not going to be 100% correct, but it did a pretty darn good job, especially considering that I did not have to do any work.

There are two ways to run Rinse. You can set it and forget it, or you can chose to manually approve the songs to get rid of. It probably will come down to how many duplicate songs you actually have as to what method you decide on, but at least you have some options.

Even though I set out to find a program to remove duplicates from iTunes, I also was really happy when Rinse cleaned up all my song information for me. I was also very excited to find that it could add in missing album artwork as well. I had always wanted to have the artwork to go with my songs, but I never really cared enough to figure out how to do it myself.

The best thing about Rinse is that you do not need to have your songs labeled correctly in order for it to work. It has a smart database that it searches to add in the correct song tags for you.

One last thing I should mention that I found to be very useful is that it allowed me to organize my genres. This is another thing I had always wanted to do but was not willing to spend any time doing myself. Many of my songs were missing genre tags completely, and others just had genres that were not correct.

With Rinse, it will fix the genres for you, but it also gives you the option of consolidating genres into the ones that you use the most. So for example, you may have songs labeled as rock and classic rock, but you may prefer to consolidate them all under rock to make it easier for you to browse by genre.

Rinse is one of few iTunes duplicate remover programs out there, and I highly recommend it because of all the other great features it has. You can try out Rinse for free to see if you like it. Click below to give it a try: