MarkelSoft Dupe Eliminator for iTunes - if you're like most iTunes users, you probably have dozens (if not hundreds) of duplicate songs cluttering your playlists, taking up valuable space on your hard drive, and generally causing you grief. New features include enhanced user interface, dupe criteria for time, library report visualization, and artwork filter.

Dupe Eliminator is an intuitive tool for Windows Vista and XP that removes all those duplicate files quickly and easily, including songs, movies, TV shows, podcasts and audiobooks. It also provides a tab for a quick Library Report.

With Dupe Eliminator, you'll never again have to manually slog through thousands of files looking for the tracks that play over and over again, or that maddening dead link to your favorite song that never works.

Dupe Eliminator makes it simple to distinguish between a duplicate file and the original.

Anyone who has amassed an extensive music collection knows how difficult it is to organize all those files by hand. Who has the patience to painstakingly go through their iTunes library and remove one by one every duplicate and dead file?

Key Features of Dupe Eliminator

Smart Search: Smart searching allows you to precisely specify criteria for duplicates so that you never end up deleting something you wanted to save.

AutoClean Mode: Automatically clean your iTunes library without lifting so much as a finger.

Scheduled Search: Define a schedule for Dupe Eliminator to check your iTunes library when your at work, sleeping... whenever you want.

Audiobook Support: Eliminate your audiobook dupes.

Dead Tracks Eliminator: Get rid of those pesky tracks that never seem to play, as well as the "phantom" tracks that show up in your library but don't actually exist on your hard drive.

Determine what you want to keep: Like having more than one track of a certain song? You can keep whatever you like, and you can specify which file stays as the original and which one is marked as the duplicate.

UnDelete: If you make a mistake, then use UnDelete to restore the removed track(s) back to iTunes.

Who Needs Dupe Eliminator for iTunes?
You do if you've ever:

Been frustrated by dead or duplicate tracks in your iTunes library. Dead tracks or dead links are music library entries whose file no longer exists.

Wanted a quick and efficient way to organize your music files.

Needed an option to organize your songs, videos, audiobooks, or podcasts.

Quick Help

FAQs | Troubleshooting | Filtered display | Screen snapshot | Need to switch iTunes to another iTunes Music Library to scan?

For Windows XP and Vista.

How To

How do I use Preferences to set advanced dupe criteria? - used to specify criteria for determining what is a duplicate and what is kept as the original. The default dupe criteria is song name, artist, and album. The default kept criteria is the first track found.
How do I automatically backup deleted files? - when turned on will automatically backup any deleted files. Backed up deleted files can be added back to iTunes at any time using UnDelete.
How do I use UnDelete? - if automatic backing up of deleted files is turned on, UnDelete can be used to add deleted files back to iTunes.

What is Compact mode? - run in a small window (like AutoClean mode) -- useful to keep an eye on a running scan.

What do the Visual type indicators mean? - original, duplicate, dead link, and duplicate dead link music files.

How do I show only duplicates? - display all the duplicate songs, podcasts, TV shows, and movies.

How do I show only duplicates with originals? - display all the duplicates along with their original tracks.

How do I show only duplicate movies? - displays the duplicate movies.

How do I show only duplicate TV Shows? - displays the duplicate TV Shows.

How do I show only duplicate podcasts? - displays the duplicate podcasts.

How do I show only duplicate audiobooks? - displays the duplicate audiobooks.
How do I show only dead links? - displays the library links to files that no longer exist.

What is AutoClean mode? automatically find duplicates and removes them using your currently selected criteria. You can schedule Dupe Eliminator to run in AutoClean mode to periodically find and remove duplicates. AutoClean command-line arguments can also be used to start the program in AutoClean mode.

How do I remove duplicates songs, movies, TV Shows, podcasts, or dead links from iTunes Music Library?

How do I remove actual file option? - removes the actual disk file in addition to music library entry.

How do I search iTunes Music Library? - search for any text in the display. Used to easily find an iTunes Music Library entry.
How do I remove entries from display only - can remove any entry from the display only -- no remove is done.

Song Details - display additional details such a actual filename and artwork on a song. Now includes ability to view other artwork and general information from the Internet.

Song Artwork - display the song artwork.

Playing the selected track - plays the currently selected song. A mouse double-click is a shortcut to play a song.

Playing the next track - plays the song after the currently selected song. A mouse double-click is a shortcut to play a song.

Launching iTunes - display the iTunes application window.

Sorting - easily sort on any column by clicking on a column heading. Selecting a sort column select the sort column. Selecting again toggles the sort between ascending and descending.

Saving a report on the iTunes library to a file in tab-delimited EXCEL format for easy importing into a spreadsheet.

Printing a report on the iTunes library.

Copying a report on the iTunes library to the clipboard in tab-delimited EXCEL format for easy importing into a spreadsheet. View a sample in Open Office.

Emailing a report in HTML format. View a sample in Yahoo mail.

Using the System tray access