MarkelSoft Dupe Eliminator for iTunes - clean up your iTunes Music Library by easily finding and removing duplicate songs, TV shows, movies, podcasts and dead links in your iTunes Music Library. Dupe Eliminator provides a very rich set of selection criteria for smartly identifying duplicates, originals and dead links. The program can be scheduled and provides an AutoClean mode for automatic iTunes Music Library cleaning. Advanced features such as dupe criteria, original criteria, AutoClean, song search, sorting, artwork viewing, and playing songs.
Dupe Eliminator uses
dupe criteria to identify what tracks are duplicates of each other. Once the duplicates are found the
original keep criteria is used to determine which track of the duplicates is kept as the original. If the default dupe and original keep criteria do not meet your needs then there are many criteria to choose from to identify duplicates the way you desire.
New features include:
specifying a playlist to scan for dupes, skipping tracks in user-created playlists, automatic backup of deleted files and UnDelete.
FAQs, Troubleshooting, & Screen snapshot
For Windows Vista and XP.
Feature summary:
Preferences - advanced dupe criteria - used to specify criteria for determining what 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.
Automatic backup of 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.
UnDelete - if automatic backing up of deleted files is turned on, UnDelete can be used to add deleted files back to iTunes.
Compact mode - run in a small window (like AutoClean mode) -- useful to keep an eye on a running scan.
Visual type indicator - original, duplicate, dead link, and duplicate dead link music files.
Show only duplicates - display all the duplicate songs, podcasts, TV shows, and movies.
Show only duplicates with originals - display all the duplicates along with their original tracks.
Show only duplicate movies - displays the duplicate movies.
Show only duplicate TV Shows - displays the duplicate TV Shows.
Show only duplicate podcasts - displays the duplicate podcasts.
Show only dead links - displays the library links to files that no longer exist.
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.
Remove duplicates songs, movies, TV Shows, podcasts, or dead links from iTunes Music Library.
Remove actual file option - removes the actual file in addition to music library entry.
Search iTunes Music Library - search for any text in the display. Used to easily find an iTunes Music Library entry.
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.
Play selected song - plays the currently selected song. A mouse double-click is a shortcut to play a song.
Play next song - plays the song after the currently selected song. A mouse double-click is a shortcut to play a song.
Launch 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.
Save a report on the iTunes library to a file in tab-delimited EXCEL format for easy importing into a spreadsheet.
Print a report on the iTunes library.
Copy a report on the iTunes library to the clipboard in tab-delimited EXCEL format for easy importing into a spreadsheet. Sample in Open Office.
Email a report in HTML format. Sample in Yahoo mail.
System tray access
