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iDupe - 2.5.2

smart duplicates scanner for iTunes

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All Time:	(4.5)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.5.2
Release Date:	2008-06-06
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	2,026
Downloads (all versions):	48,107
Price:	$8.00

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Product Description:

iDupe is designed to process duplicates and dead tracks in iTunes in a smart way. iTunes now has a "Show Duplicates" command. But it is of limited use. First, it offers no way to remove duplicates while keeping one version of a track. Second, there is no good way to identify which tracks are actually duplicates as opposed to different versions of the same song, the same song with different bitrates, etc.

iDupe tries to deal with this problem intelligently, making a number of judgement calls. It will remove absolutely unambiguous duplicate entries, but use the check marks in iTunes to uncheck the duplicates it thinks are good candidates for removal. Potential duplicates will be ranked according to a number of criteria. It will evaluate whether it is likely to be a loose single track, which version of an album to keep, as well as other considerations. Once you review its choices in iTunes, iDupe can then remove unchecked tracks in a selection from the playlist and from the library and move the corresponding files to the trash, according to your choice.

What's new in this version:

Rebuilt with XCode 2.5 on Tiger.
Work around Leopard XCode 3.0 bug causing issues with Tiger when (optional) FileMaker or Growl not installed (fixed).
Restore defaults button restores default settings of several recent features that were overlooked before.
Added faster copy to "iDupe Remove" playlist instead of removing from Music library mode.
Fuzzy matching now treats "&" and "and" as equivalent.
More track-by-track progress reporting when "more information" option is on.
More warnings given when "show warnings" option is on.
More functions can be canceled.
Broke information screens into several sections.
Interface adjustments, especially tool tip edits.
Fixed some issues with Step 2 check mark all & reverse check marks actions.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

iTunes 4.9 or higher

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I give up - Version: 2.5.2, 6/7/2008 03:03PM PST

CEThorn

I have tried several incarnations of this software, each time hoping it would become easier to use. But instead, it seems that more screens, more alerts, and more dialogs appear in each successive version, making it even more confusing and less intuitive to use. There are two screens of preference settings! And the instructions are quite rambling. I finally ended up using an application called TidyUp! and got excellent results removing duplicate music files. Try iDupe if you like, but I seriously doubt you will enjoy the experience.

Problems and crash - Version: 2.2.2, 3/6/2008 12:08PM PST

searchdiver

I just tried iDupe. First I tried my whole iTunes library and it gave me a warning that it should only be used on small selections of files at a time. I then tried iDupe on a small selection (251 files) that I knew had a lot of duplicates. iDupe took over twenty minutes to look at the 251 songs and find 48 duplicates. It took over my computer during the entire search. I could not quit iDupe, access the finder or anything else on my Mac until it finished. I then told it to delete the 48 duplicates it found and once again froze me out of access to anything on the Mac and after 20 more minutes, it got stuck requiring a force quit and relaunch of the finder. This program has potential, but until it becomes reliable, can handle larger numbers of songs, and doesn't lock you out of the computer during operation, I can't use or recommend it.

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Outstanding! - Version: 2.2.2, 12/4/2007 07:42AM PST

jnaeve

This is a very well designed and well thought-out application. After upgrading my Mac and basically just archiving my iTunes off and moving them over to my new machine, I started to see duplications. Trying to manage this manually is just too much so I left it alone. When Leopard came, I upgraded my system but for some reason, my iTunes list was now 3x of what the actual song lists were. I had to go in and clean that up considerably and after realizing that this is really an impossible task manually, I looked for a solution such as scripts, plug-ins and other tools and after trying several others, I came across iDupe - wow, wish I had just started with this one.

iDupe takes a little getting used to. I started with my trial very cautiously and selected 10 different song tracks, all of which had at least 3 duplicates. Manually I could observe this few and monitor the tool. The "Report" tab is really awesome. Once you've had iDupe scan the selected songs for duplicates, you can review the log in the Report tab and if everything looks good, have iDupe remove the duplicates. Well, watching this manually and observing the entries in the "Report" tab pays off. It matched what I watched when the process occurred and only had to manually delete about 15 songs from the entire list because I had modified the information in those songs manually. After weeding out roughly 2/3rds of my lists (4500+ down to 1500) in about 30 minutes, I was really happy.

This is really a well designed and well built application with serious considerations of the process to carefully and properly remove duplicates. Its well worth the $8 Shareware fee!

I highly recommend this application to anyone who has duplicate entries in their iTunes library!