Knowing what songs are duplicates of one another doesn't do you much good if you have to manually pick what you want to keep, and that's where Automarking comes in. By default, they're removed from iTunes and put into your Trash.

You can choose what you'd like to happen to these 'unkept' songs with the 'Unkept songs' pop-up button below the list. Any duplicate group with both track information marked and audio data marked will get merged together, with the unchecked items in that group being 'unkept'. If Song Sergeant is showing some songs as duplicates of one another and you've determined that they aren't, you'll want to either adjust the Duplicates criteria to be more discerning in the Preferences window, or you can simply let Song Sergeant know that the particular songs should never be considered as duplicates of one another ever again by selecting them and clicking the 'Note As Not Duplicates' button below the list.Įverything peachy? Just click the 'Merge Marked' button to let Song Sergeant take care of the marked songs. There's also a handy little green 'play' button in the audio data section to let you quickly listen to any track. Checkboxes in the list let you mark which track information and which audio data you'd like to keep for each group of duplicate songs. You can fine tune these criteria in the Preferences window, where you can adjust the match information above, or even add match information such as album title, file kind, or file size.Įach song has its track information treated separately from its actual audio data, because the best track information isn't necessarily attached to the best audio data. By default, Song Sergeant looks for songs that have the same (or similar) titles and artist names, and have durations within 10 seconds of each other. This list of songs are those that appear to be redundant within your library, and are shown grouped.

In addition to Duplicates, click the icons in Song Sergeant's toolbar to view other types of problems it may have found.

Song Sergeant will then automark the duplicates it found, marking which information and which audio data you'd probably like to keep amongst each group of duplicates. After launching, Song Sergeant will automatically find and load your iTunes library, launch iTunes (if necessary), and start checking your library for problems.

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