If you’re like most iTunes users, you probably have dozens (if not hundreds) of duplicate songs cluttering your playlists, taking up valuable space on your hard drive, and generally causing you grief.

Dupe Eliminator is an intuitive tool for Windows Vista and XP that removes all those duplicate files quickly and easily, including songs, movies, TV shows, podcasts and audiobooks.

With Dupe Eliminator, you’ll never again have to manually slog through thousands of files looking for the tracks that play over and over again, or that maddening dead link to your favorite song that never works. Dupe Eliminator makes it simple to distinguish between a duplicate file and the original.

Anyone who has amassed an extensive music collection knows how difficult it is to organize all those files by hand. Who has the patience to painstakingly go through their iTunes library and remove one by one every duplicate and dead file?
Key Features of Dupe Eliminator

* Smart Search: Smart searching allows you to precisely specify criteria for duplicates so that you never end up deleting something you wanted to save.
* AutoClean Mode: Automatically clean your iTunes library without lifting so much as a finger.
* Scheduled Search: Define a schedule for Dupe Eliminator to check your iTunes library when your at work, sleeping… whenever you want.
* Audiobook Support: Eliminate your audiobook dupes.
* Dead Tracks Eliminator: Get rid of those pesky tracks that never seem to play, as well as the “phantom” tracks that show up in your library but don’t actually exist on your hard drive.
* Determine what you want to keep: Like having more than one track of a certain song? You can keep whatever you like, and you can specify which file stays as the original and which one is marked as the duplicate.
* UnDelete: If you make a mistake, then use UnDelete to restore the removed track(s) back to iTunes.

Who Needs Dupe Eliminator for iTunes?
You do if you’ve ever:

* Been frustrated by dead or duplicate tracks in your iTunes library.
* Wanted a quick and efficient way to organize your music files.
* Needed an option to organize your songs, videos, audiobooks, or podcasts.

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Thanks for the feedback, very useful to hear how people work and what works for them! What I’ll probably do is put these features in and add an item to the settings page that lets you switch on / off the due date functionality, that way if people don’t want them it keeps the interface nice and simple.

Once due dates are added, there are lots of ways undone could present them to you - emailing you a daily list, for example. Also there’d be a set of pages - ‘Today’, ‘This Week’, ‘This Month’, and a calendar navigation gadget? Exportable calendar items would be available, probably for ical, google calendar and outlook.

Cheers!

Joe

Stacey Derbinshire

-Get some more RAM
-Make sure there’s a couple of gig free disk space on the drive where OSX is installed
-Make sure the maintenance jobs get run, see http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html

Even a G4 should deal with a big iTunes Library ok if it has enough RAM, although one exception is when you have non-western characters in song titles etc. My old G4 used to slow right down when scrolling down a playlist with lots of Kanji titles. I haven’t had the same issue on my Intel iMac, which has more RAM.

Anyway, good luck!

/Peter