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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:
- Better handling of tracks with no ID3 tags.
- Fixed hanging issue involving scanning tracks without tags when an album folder has a massive number of files.
- iDupe attempts to guess at artist and track name based on the file name for tracks without tags.
- Fixed issue preserving playlists when a track is missing artist or album tags.
- Fixed similar issue when restoring dead tracks when a track is missing those tags.
- Rewrote more portions to rely less on the Finder (now almost not at all). This increases speed generally.
- Improved portion relating to evaluating whether an album has more files of a certain type (mp3, m4a, m4p, ogg, flac).
- Better handling of .ogg files, especially .ogg bit rates.
- Added timeout handling to the initial "checking selection portion" of the scan.
- Better handling of time outs overall.
- Partial results now available if scan is cancelled.
- Fixed initial non-appearance of scan progress bar when scanning very large selections.
- Improved debug logging.
- Debug log cleared when toggling debug mode is toggled.
- Tweaks to iGotta dead track scanning feature.
- Clean up some documentation.
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
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Good stuff! 
- Version: 2.8, 11/22/2009 12:17PM PST
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brassybel
Works for me :-) - Version: 2.5.2, 10/17/2008 11:12PM PST
dudemanla
Here is what I did.
If you pick thousands of songs at a time that will be too much.
1. Go to itunes and under the file menu select show duplicates
2. launch iDupe and set prefs
3. Click on the first song then scroll down and shift click on the last song in the block.
I picked 200 at a time I may have done 500 at times too.
4. Click refresh itunes selection
5. click scan for dupes
6. I looked over the the selected ones in iTunes.
When you lick on the last option in step 3 it will remove all the unchecked itunes songs
so i like to go through the list to make sure it looks ok before i hit the last option in itunes
Then i just do something else while it deletes the unchecked songs that are dupes.
In prefs i selected to keep the higher quality bit rates. If you put your curser on the option it will pop up telling you what each option does. I like this one because it has an option to keep the higher quality songs and delete the lower quality. There are other dupe removal programs that cost 30 bucks that don't even have that option.
idupe 
- Version: 2.5, 7/31/2008 08:00PM PST
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rcharbison
It has a nice, simple interface and accurately selects the duplicates ready for removal.
I have a 120gb library so I followed dudemania's instructions and it was all sweet! It took a while, so I left it running overnight, but I have woken up to find nearly 2000 tracks have been deleted at my request.