Tuesday, April 8, 2014

How to Delete Duplicates Songs from Your iTunes Music Library?

In some apple forums, we can see that there are too many iTunes users ask about how to delete duplicate songs.

Q1: I have about 20,000 songs on iTunes. It's a jumble out there which occupies too much hard disk space. So many tracks with wrong data, duplicates that don’t have the same title listed, etc. How the heck to delete duplicate music?
Q2: Deleted Song Keeps Reappearing! How can I do to it?
Q3: I end up with a lot of duplicates in iTunes somehow. What causes them? How can I make sure they are deleted? What is some software that will help delete duplicate songs?
Q4: How do I delete duplicate songs on my iTunes without having to go though and do it in batch without data loss?
Q5: I need an automatically way to delete duplicate in my iTunes library. I have a ton of duplicates and with the snail speed iTunes functions as it is this is taking far too long time to do individually. Please help!

Luckily you, here are 2 effective ways help you to delete iTunes duplicate songs such as mp3, mp4, etc.

Solution 1: How to Remove iTunes Duplicates from iTunes (Free way)


Whether you've downloaded music or imported songs from CDs, you may have a few duplicate tracks causing clutter in your iTunes collection. It is generally a little known fact that iTunes features an in-bred duplicate finder function. In order to access it, you would need to point to file from the main iTunes’ window and then point to “Display Duplicates”. Here's how to find and get rid of any duplicate songs in iTunes:

Step 1. Open iTunes and select Music/Movies/Podcasts/Books under Library.
Step 2. Go to File > Display Duplicates and iTunes will show all of the duplicate items in your library.


Step 3. Choose duplicate items you want to remove from iTunes library.
Step 4. Press the Delete key on your keyboard.


Step 5. You will be prompted to either keep the duplicate files in your iTunes folder or remove it from hard drive to Trash, which you can finally delete whenever you like.



Well, it is very easy for people to delete music files in iTunes. However, it is not easy for people to delete duplicates in iTunes manually. For example, if you have 10,000 duplicate songs, solution 1 is obviously not a good way for you to clean up. It is going to take you a very, very long time and may cause data loss.
So, is there any better way to do this? Is there any wonderful iTunes cleanup app to help clean up iTunes and delete duplicates in iTunes music library with automatically operation? Of course yes. Tenorshare Music Cleanup, an expert iTunes cleaner tool that could help you delete duplicates songs in iTunes easily and quickly. Only one click, it could help you repair and clean up iTunes music library and other music collections in batch.

Tenorshare Music Cleanup can also remove duplicates in iTunes library for your iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4, iPad Air/mini 2/4/3, iPod touch 5/4 and more other iOS devices. It supports iTunes 10, and the latest iTunes 11 (iTunes 11.1, 11.1.1, and etc).

Solution 2: How to Delete Duplicated Music in Batch with Tenorshare Music Cleanup


Step 1: Scan song duplicates in iTunes.

After you download and install Tenorshare Music Cleanup from http://t.co/FyC97NFEaG on your Win computer, you can run it and the program will display you the default mode “iTunes Music Clean”. You can click the button "Start Scan" to scan song duplicates in your iTunes music library.


Step 2: Choose song duplicates to delete.

After scanning, the program will show you the results like Duplicate songs in one list, songs without album artwork, songs without artist, songs without album, etc. For deleting duplicates in iTunes, Select "Duplicates" on the left of the interface and you will see all duplicated songs and the number of the copies in the file tray.

Step 3: Delete duplicates in iTunes.

After the selection, you can click "Clear Duplicate" to remove the songs to trash. Through the cleanup, your iTunes will be well organized.

This iTunes cleanup tool has been considered to be the easiest and most effective one. With this iTunes cleanup program, it would be easier to clean up iTunes and delete duplicates in music library.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Is Apple going to release iTunes for Android? Rumours say iTunes Radio is expanding

iOS and Android have always gone head to head, battling it out as the leading mobile operating systems for smartphones and tablets. However, if rumours are to be believed, Apple could soon release an iTunes App for Android while expanding iTunes Radio into an even bigger competitor to internet streaming services like Spotify.
In March, a report from music site Billboard cited "three people familiar with the talks" who say Apple considering several different options to help address a decline in US download sales from Apple's iTunes Music Store.

In addition to the possibility of introducing digital album-release windows ahead of the CD release on iTunes, Apple is also reportedly talking with record labels about the possibility of turning iTunes Radio into a standalone app that is not only available to iOS users, but also to those with Android devices.

Allegedly, Apple is concerned about an estimated 13 per cent drop in digital albums sales in the US so far in 2014, and a 11 per cent drop in digital single sales during the same period on iTunes, hence the new plans to expand its subscription service. It's believed that the decline in music downloads is due to the growing popularity of services like Spotify, Pandora and even YouTube.

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, revenue from subscription and music-streaming services doubled in 2013, and now generates more than $1 billion per year, so it's no surprise that Apple is interested in progressing more in an area that has show such impressive growth.

However, whether Apple will want to offer up this service to users of competing devices is another matter. On one hand, it'll remove a unique selling point that comes with iOS devices, but on the other hand, it'll give Android users a taste of iOS that's bound to be attractive and could encourage them to make the switch to Apple.

For Apple, iTunes is an enormous part of its business, and recent forecasts from research firm Macquarie Capital suggests that alone, Apple's iTunes, software and services will grow to account for 20 per cent of Apple's profits by the year 2020.

In fact, Macquarie's Ben Schachter expects Apple's iTunes, software and services business to generate about $30 billion gross revenue this year. "That is almost equivalent to its iPad business and is more than Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Netflix's combined (forecasted) revenue," he said.

So does Apple really need to give a portion of its iTunes service to Android users?

Even if the rumours are true, Android users have still got a long wait ahead of them as the discussions about an iTunes App for Google's mobile OS are said to be in the very early stages.

There are already iTunes apps available from Android's Google Play Store, but all of those are made by third-party developers.

Plus, those of us in the UK and every country other than Australia and the US still haven't even got access to the current iteration of iTunes Radio, so we'd like that first please Apple!

More info: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iosapps/itunes-for-android-release-date-rumours-3509355