The program lets you quickly search for duplicates using various criteria such as the song’s name, artist, album, length, track number and others. NET Framework and iTunes installed on your computer as well. Before installing the app you should know it needs. Tune Sweeper is a small but very useful tool that can easily detect and remove duplicate files from your iTunes library. The most common problem is keeping duplicate files which are not just unnecessary, they also occupy additional space of your hard drive.
Once Tune Sweeper has finished removing duplicates from iTunes, you will be able to open the backup file location, open iTunes or search your iTunes for duplicates again.Īnd that's it! See the rest of this user guide to discover the more powerful features and options available in Tune Sweeper.Like any other large music collection, your iTunes library can become quite difficult when you have thousands of song stored in it. Tune Sweeper will start iTunes and begin to remove all of the duplicate tracks marked for removal. When you are ready, select "Yes, Remove Duplicates". Any tracks copied to your recycle bin can be restored although they will continue to take up disk space until the recycle bin is emptied. On this screen you can also select whether or not to copy deleted tracks to your computers Recycle bin. Click "Remove Duplicates" in the top right hand side of Tune Sweeper.Ī confirmation screen will display asking you whether you are sure you want to delete the selected tracks. Nearly there! All that is left to do now is to let Tune Sweeper remove all the tracks from iTunes that are marked as "Remove" in all the duplicate groups. When this box is checked Tunes Sweeper will not remove any tracks from iTunes that belong in that group. In this case you can check the "Ignore this group" checkbox for that group. You may decide that you do not want to delete any tracks from a particular group. Using the "Keep Selection Preference" box on the left hand side of the Tune Sweeper window you can select which tracks to keep based on the highest quality, longest duration, last added to iTunes or last date played.įor example, selecting "Highest Quality" in the Keep Selection Preference box will instruct Tune Sweeper to automatically select all the tracks in each group for removal, except for the track with the highest bitrate. Fortunately, Tune Sweeper can automatically select which track to keep in each group based on your preference. If you have many duplicate groups, manually selecting which track to remove in each group may take some time. Tracks marked for removal are highlighted red.
You can now select which tracks in each group you would like to remove from iTunes by selecting the checkboxes next to those tracks. See " Searching for Duplicates" for more information. Note: Tune Sweeper contains some powerful tools and options to change the way Tune Sweeper searches and displays a duplicate. There are two tracks called "Poker Face" by "Lady Gaga" and two tracks called "Snooks (Progress Report)" by the artist "Elbow" in the iTunes library. In the example above two groups of duplicates have been found.
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