You’ll see if it’s in any of your favourite playlists. Wondering if the track is in any of your Playlists? Right click on the track and choose Show in Playlist.Check to see if you have Loved or Rated a track (as above right click on the column header and choose the relevant view).This way you can delete the version you have played less, which is less likely to be associated with a Playlist or have other information attributed to it. Check how many plays you have associated with the track – if you don’t have a plays column right click on the columns header and choose Plays.Here are a few tips to help you decide what to delete: It’s showing the duplicates and letting you choose which ones to get rid of. Apple’s not showing you the duplicates you can safely delete. Show Exact Duplicates returned 87 items on exact duplicates and Show Duplicate Items returned 685 items for us, so it’s probably wise to start here if you are pushed for time.ĭon’t just delete everything you see. This will still show you two versions of a track on two different albums, but it should avoid the issue where two very different tracks are incorrectly identified as the same (such as the concert version of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers track mentioned above.) Press and hold the Alt/Option key and click on Show Exact Duplicates and you will see only exact duplicates.Now when you click on File > Library press the Alt/Option key and you will see a new option: Show Exact Duplicates.Choose Show All Items (you need to do this first if you have already chosen to Show Duplicate Items).There is a simple way to get iTunes and Music to just show the tracks that really are identical but you need to press an extra key. What if you don’t want to delete tracks that aren’t really the same. Using ‘Show exact duplicates’ in Music or iTunes Luckily there is a simple way to avoid this as we’ll explain next. For example, there might be two versions of the same track but they might be quite different versions that came with different albums. The big problem with this method of identifying a duplicate is that if can show you duplicates that aren’t true duplicates. Also beware of deleting a version of a track that you might have added to a playlist or one your have a rating attributed to.You need to select each track you want to delete individually (we’ll show you a simple way to do that below). Don’t select the lot and delete everything – that will delete every instance of that track.One is from the Greatest Hits and one from Live at Hyde Park. For example we have two versions of Give It Away by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
Tracks can be identified as duplicates but they might not be the same: check for the length of the track and the album name.Two songs with the same name by different people won’t show up here.
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