Hi Krister and John, I think you might want to look into the "Dupin" app that Doug Adams has on his "AppleScripts for iTunes" site: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php
There's now also a "Dupin Lite" app ($7.99 instead of $15) if you only want to identify and delete the duplicate tracks (which sounds like the main problem -- false links), instead of also managing them (i.e., also clean up and consolidate multiple real entries for the same track in your library). I haven't used either of these apps, but I've used numerous other of his AppleScripts for iTunes -- particularly back in the days when iTunes was less accessible and a lot of these scripts supplied the functionality that wasn't yet in iTunes. Some list members have used his "Corral All Dupes" scripts. These are quite helpful, but don't address the issue of automatically handling dozens or hundreds of dupe entries after they are identified, which is what Dupin is designed to do. The assumption behind the other scripts (which work better than the iTunes options for duplicate identification) is that you won't have so many that you can't easily clean this up manually with the info. Dupin is designed for people who feel that the problem really got out of hand for simple manual clean ups assisted with the scripts. (That's also why I've never had to use Dupin.) Try reading up on the description, and then you can purchase either Dupin Lite or Dupin from the Mac App store. I did a quick Google search for other products, because I was curious about whether we'd get a similar question for iTunes on Windows from the viphone list, and I found a recent Ars Technica review article that reviewed "Rinse" (a Real Networks product with both Windows and Mac versions) as "good, not great" -- especially when stacked up against alternatives that included the less expensive and more effective Dupin on the Mac side: "Hands on: RealNetworks' Rinse for iTunes is good, not great" By Jacqui Cheng April 26, 2011 http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/04/hands-on-realnetworks-rinse-for-itunes-is-good-not-great.ars <begin excerpt> "If Real is going to ask real customers (ba-dum...) to pay $40 apiece for its software, it could put a little effort into getting the details right.…<snip> It's for this reason that we hesitate to recommend Rinse when there are a handful of other options available. For example, Windows users can use meta-iPod to remove duplicates, add album art, compare your metadata against verified sources, and even assign track ratings. Mac users can use Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes in order to manage their music (with a script for pretty much any task you would dream up), or simply use the$15 Dupin app to remove duplicates. And there's always TuneUp for Mac and Windows, which can also fix song info, remove duplicates, and add missing cover art for $39.95 per year or $49.95 for a lifetime subscription." <end excerpt> Check the end of the Ars Technica that I linked above if you want links to any of the other products that were mentioned. As I said, I've never used Dupin, but Doug Adams sets the standards for high-quality AppleScripts for iTunes. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 7, 2011, at 01:18, John Sanfilippo wrote: > Well, as it happens, I have the very same question, so at least two of us > anxiously await a gracious knowledgeable response. smile > > js > > > On May 7, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Hello, > I don't know if this is even possible, but here's the problem: I have an > ITunes library with a load of songs, over 1000 at least, however due to > various happenings in the past i also have many duplicate links to the same > song, many if not all of them has the status "invalid place" or something. > Since there are duplicates of those links, ITunes prevents synching to the > IDevices i have. I wonder is there a quick and easy way of cleaning up all > those links that has an invalid place or do i have to do this link by link, > cause that would be a tedious job at best? If ITunes itself can't do it, is > there an app that can? > Btw, by "link" in this case i mean database entry such as title or artist. > Any ITunes guru out there who knows this? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
