Remove Duplicate Songs from Apple Music

Are duplicate songs clogging up your Music library? Today I'm going to teach you a three-step process to identify and remove duplicate songs from Apple Music/iTunes/Music App/That App That Contains Your Music!

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It's not at all unusual to discover you have duplicate songs in your Music library. This video is broken into three parts. First, we will change a few settings that will help make it easier to discern which song to keep and which to delete. Then, I will show you how to find all of the exact duplicates (identical files). Finally, I will show you how to find songs that are very similar, but may not technically be identical.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Change These Settings in Music
01:59 Finding/Removing Exact Duplicates
03:52 Finding/Removing Similar Songs

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[JesusBaez-vv]

Hi there, somehow I couldn't follow you. I have an HP laptop and not an apple, so do you have instructions for me to follow on my computer?

[hotshotsbydonphotography]

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time. Very timely! Thank you.

[pepreo]

Thanks, this has been of great help to finally get rid of duplicates...

[DigiDriftZone]

I have 7, 400 - manually selecting will take forever. How would I delete the lowest quality duplicates?

[ebelen]

Wanted to say thank you like the others but share some specificity to you and other readers. Your methodology on how to do things for Music or Photos is by far superior in my opinion. Your methodologies aren’t difficult but can be time consuming when one has many songs and photos but well worth it. I spent many hours following and feel great that my songs and photos are organized. More though is the pleasure I’ve received by finding old mixtapes that I purchased many years ago that cannot be replicated by Apple Music or Spotify. Also, found so many old photos that I’ve been able to share with others and remember fantastic memories. I highly recommend your processes.

[dwainwilder]

Hi David, I am viewing this video 2 years after you posted it. The information in this video is very helpful. While it will work for many, it is too much work for me, as I have 59k songs in my music library and over 50K in folders with a lot of duplicates on an external SSD. Do you know an app you could recommend for such a huge project.

[whitakervisuals]

Dude this video was immensely helpful. Thank you so much.

[filk]

Thanks for the video. The issue wth duplicates is that some of the duplicate songs you see are songs that are in playlists. Is there a way to know which song in the duplicates that are shown are the ones in your playlists? I do not want to delete a duplicated song from list that also is in one of my p[alylsts?

[FDNY]

Great class David, since I do not worry about space if I get an album I usually keep them all including the duplicates. Thanks for helping out if I wish/need to change that.

[NormanMaxwell-hj]

Hi i thought great video of how to delete multiple duplicate songs as after using iTunes for years i installed Apple Music on my new Windows 11 PC & found it frustrating finding settings & options that had been easier previously, as i said loved your easy to follow video till i realised that i have no menu bar at top of screen with File, Edit etc as i had on ITunes, can you help me activate this or is this a Apple Music issue in Australia as in your video i can see it at top of your Apple Music screen. HELP.

[carolinepeeples]

I always learn from you David, thank you so much.

[HBStep]

All my songs are on my harddrive, don't use cloud. Set up new computer (PC) and new phone. Don't know what happened (probably from importing library) but every single of my 5, 000 songs are duplicated in my songs list in itunes. They are exactly the same song, same folder. Is there a fix for this? Thank you

[jdizzle]

is there an easy w do this on an iPhone? So far, short of deleting everything and resynching, I'm not finding anything useful.

[Normanc]

Thanks greatly! I have some work to do!

My desktop music library is a bit of a mess, including 1) multiple copies of songs, 2) loads of recordings from the original iTunes where "the original file could not be found" (Martin Luther King, Dylan Thomas, and Harry Potter among them!), 3) hundreds of Garageband songs I've recorded, and 4) record albums I downloaded into iTunes.

1) Is there any way to group the songs with missing data ("original file could not be found") together so they can all be deleted quickly?
2) Is there any way to consolidate the libraries from my laptop, desktop, iPhone, and iPad together -- assuming there is room?


I guess I could use some tech therapy!

[lenraphael]

having just spent a couple of hours w tier 2 Apple Media support, i learned a lot more from this. Question: are there any 3rd party utils for Windows that simplify this? If not, any consultants who will go thru this procedure for a fee for a user, remotely?

[chrispearce]

Thanks David, but if i have the same track on 2 different albums, and would like to keep album integrity, is there a way to point the album to the non deleted track?

[davefram]

Your video's are always so informative and a great resource for me. How do I update the cloud status after removing the duplicates? I removed the duplicates but I still see a number of tracts still showing a cloud status of duplicate? I did try going to Library > Update Cloud Library but the cloud status is still showing duplicate? Thanks once again for help!

[jackbecker]

How do I delete duplicate names etc on my iPad v15?

[travelers]

This solution to Apple's horrendous Music App would take me days to correct. I've got four versions of the same playlists on my iphone, duplicates on iMac.

[pauldarko]

Thanks for the video. Does this same process work where the music is from cd collection and stored in iTunes. I have thousands of songs and at least half duplicated even up to 3 or 4 times .PLEASE PLEASE HELP 😂