Speed deletion of iiTunes duplicates while importing

Sep 14, '04 06:07:48AM

Contributed by: hessi

Sometimes I convert songs from CD which are already in my library, but at a different quality. Since the update mechanism doesn't work on songs which I haven't converted from CD the first time, all this songs wind up in my library twice. So, after setting the rating, I'd like to delete the old song -- but deleting while importing causes the deletion process to take exactly as long as the importing of the track, regardless of the length of the track to import or the number of songs to delete. Nice bug, Apple!

The solution: While deleting, simply change the focus from iTunes to another application, or, even better, just press Command-Tab once. The delete will be finished within a few seconds, and you can return to iTunes with Command-Tab and then Shift-Command-Tab (or Command-`).

Hope that helps.

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