Do you have an iTunes duplicate songs problem? If you do you're not alone. The vast majority of iTunes users find that they have tons of duplicate songs that are just clogging up their playlist and making it difficult (if not impossible) to quickly and easily find the music they're looking for, when they're looking for it. While this might not sound so serious a severe duplicate songs problem will easily result in a lot of wasted time and added frustration when it comes to your song browsing experience in iTunes. If you want to get the most out of this music player, and as such out of your digital music collection, than you need to go ahead and figure out a way to quickly and efficiently eliminate duplicate songs.

• There are plenty of reasons why you might have accumulated a large amount of duplicate songs in your iTunes player. One of the simplest reasons is that you pull your songs off of CDs that your purchase or already own or borrow from a friend, and you're in the habit of accidentally ripping the same CDs over and over again. You could also accumulate these duplicates if you purchase music online and accidentally repeatedly download the same songs over and over again. If this is the case than removing iTunes duplicate songs is a pretty simple and easy affair.

• ??All you need to do is load up iTunes, go to the "file" tab and scroll down and select "show me duplicate songs." From there all you need to do is go ahead and delete all of the duplicates that show up, either individually or all at once as a group.?

• This is probably the easiest way to delete iTunes duplicates songs but it's also not effective in every instance. It requires that all of your duplicates share precise identifying information, such as song title and the like. Because so many music collections are cobbled together from so many sources and are so reliant on haphazard downloading of mp3s from a wide variety of sources it is highly unlikely that all of your duplicates share enough precise identifying information for iTunes to properly match them up. ?

• When this is the case, and more often than not it is the case, you're going to need to take other measures. Namely you're going to need to get a piece of software that's specifically designed around finding and eliminating duplicate songs in your iTunes playlist.?

The best of these programs is one called Tuneup Media's DeDuper, which effectively maps out the audio profile of each of your songs and then matches them up with all other songs featuring identical or near-identical audio profiles. As you can imagine this is a much more precise method of identifying duplicate songs as it cuts through identifying information that is far too easy to confuse or misrepresent. The nice thing about DeDuper is the fact that it performs all of this very quickly and practically automatically, taking most of the tedious work out of this potentially mind-numbing task, making it quick, easy and effective. Try using this promo code for Tuneup Media to get a special 15% discount on the program before check out. Just follow the link to find out more.