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Keep duplicate songs off of iTunes Smart Playlists
Authored by: stevebr on Nov 22, '06 10:02:17AM

Unfortunately, iTunes' notion of what constitutes a duplicate is really crude. It ignores standard information like year or track length -- both of which are really useful in the determination.

If you have a large library or even a small one that contains a sizabe chunk of an artist's discography, you'll have to copy and clean up the lists made in the interim steps to not include things like live recordings, alternate takes from the same album, remixes, etc.

Really, the best way to deal with this is detailed accurate tags and basing your conditions on those: "Comment does not contain 'Concert'" etc."

(going slightly off topic) Even then you're still talking about nested lists for your "and" or "or" conditions. On the upside, since the introduction of folders you only really need to make playlists for your "or" conditions and then just dump them all in a folder which acts as the "and" list.



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