I recently upgraded my internal hard drive, and thus, was able to integrate my iTunes library, much of which was stored on an external hard drive. This resulted in literally thousands of duplicates, principally of the files which I'd already had "on the road" copies on my Macbook.
This is a catastrophe, of course, because now the syncing on my iPhone is messed up- my top artists are now in duplicate, and it's even worse on the iPhone since you can't change the sort order; there is no longer any way for me to simply listen to an album without hitting "skip track" every other track.
I want to delete the duplicates from my iTunes library and my hard drive, but I only want to delete the real duplicates, not the ones that have all my metadata. For the most part these are the ones that have a "1" or "2" at the end of the filename, since a track gets a number tacked on when it's imported as a duplicate. (Why it doesn't question the duplicate import like iPhoto does, is beyond me.)
Is there any way for me to view my iTunes library that shows the filenames? That is, a way from which I could then delete them? I know that I could simply create a file list in Terminal but that wouldn't really help me delete them. None of the scripts that I've found display the filename either, and having to hit command-i then return for each track I want to delete is a real drag- command-i, return, command-delete, m, times 4000 files, is a really really slow process and I don't have time for that. Anyone have experience solving this problem?
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