Song deDuper App Reviews

It’s crashed twice now. The first time in trying to apply a filter and now the second time about a quarter of the way through deleting songs. So sad, I had high hopes for this program.

Well worth the $4.99

Once the “Search” is executed, the next step requires one to keep a version based on preferred criteria. However, it “force closes” - well, practically has a seizure - once any choice is selected and the app freezes.

Simple, fast, and flawless.

It appears to work (although it fell a couple thousand short of identifying all duplicates in my library) but then when you "purge" it, similarly, LOOKS like it is working. In fact, it even sends (I dont know what) the duplicate items to the trash. But, if I search again, my library is the same size, and the same exact songs are identified again. This is worthless.

Had a situation where almost 20,000 songs were duplicated (all legal, I swear - my wife and I were huge CD collectors!) and there was no easy way to go through and delete them. Facing down the prospect of restoring the library from Time Machine, it occurred to me that I might find a duplicate killer here on the App Store. I don’t know anything about this sort of software, but this is the one I settled on. And… it worked like a charm! Because of the size of my library it took a little bit to run, but it got the job done. Worth every penny!

I’m at a loss as to the positive reviews. It crashes, locks up or when I make a playlist small enough for it to handle, it takes about 30-45 seconds to delete each song. I was really hoping this would work. Don’t waste your money manually clicking and deleting is quicker.

I mistakenly erased my music, so to insure I didn’t miss restoring any songs, I ended up duplicating over 4,000 songs when I copied them from my backup hard drive. I ran the edDuper twice to insure I got rid of all the duplicates, and it was done in under 10 minutes. All in all, a easy to understand App, that did the job. Best of all was the time it saved me.

I purchased this based off reviews and was hopeful. What a disappointment. It finds the dupe files easy enough but it will not delete them unless i go in and manually select a handful of files and delete them myself. When I use the auto filter to select and then Purge it says it deletes the files but it does not. They do not go in the trash and they are not deleted. The only way around it is to select a few at a time, exactly what i can do in iTunes, and then delete. Maybe i can get my money back. :-(

An app is not a good app if it alwsys freezes. Like it never finishes its search. Granted I have a large database. But when it always stops responding, its not an app I can trust to clean up itunes.

I had over 200 duplcated tracks. Easy to find and delete from my Mac. (Since they were also in the cloud, using itunes Match, I then sorted the songs to group all those with the download icon, selected them and deleted them from iCloud). All done.

I wasted a good chunk of time trying to get this to work. However, nothing improved with the duplicates in iTunes. Total waste of time.

Total waste of money……….Ran three times and still missed 50 songs in my 5000 library. Don’t waste your time and money on this imitation of duplicate detective.

While it isnt immediately clear or intuitive how to get the app to the finish line, if you click through the entire process and apply filters, it will automatically select and delete duplicates for you. This saved me hours of sifting through the "View Duplicates" in iTunes.

I purchased this with the hope that I could deduplicate the iTunes library I run on an external HD on a mac mini over my network. I have my iTunes library on my local computer set to use that external library as its own. However, Song Deduper would only examine my local Music directory, proving to be useless for my situation. I also tried creating a symbolic link to the external library location on the networked HD, but again Song Deduper would not recurse into the directory structure, indicating only that I had no duplicate media files (when it couldn’t find any files locally). I require that this application be updated to allow the iTunes library to be manually chosen via an Open dialog. If you’re looking at this to do anything besides work on your local iTunes library, don’t waste your money.

After a few hours of searching for various ways to try and clean my library including terminal, manually, trying another app on the store, I’m extremely glad I got this and finally got my library cleaned up. Extremely fast and easy, well worth it for those of us driven mad by seing the duplicates gained over the years through various installs, restores, backups whatever. Great app thanks.

I bought this app because I had what I thought was a BIG job, (a library that stretches back to nearly 50 years of music purchases in a variety of formats), that was just over 30% on a new machine, with what I estimated to be 40 - 55% duplicates, for a variety of reasons. I bought this first because of the price, five dollars as opposed to thirty dollars and up, and NONE, (not ONE), were explicit enough in their ads to tell me that they would do things they way that I wanted them to do it. This is simply an inventory function after all. First off, this program is fairly intuitive, which is good because the documentation is what you see in the ads. It is S L O W. When it is deleting, it counts the tracks off as it goes. I am estimating about 30,000 to delete and I am watching a counter, starting with 1, and I have no trouble keeping up with the count. I don’t need a secure delete here, just get em in the trash. You can only choose ONE parameter to sort by, (much like iTunes, so …..), but I would prefer it if these tunes were arranged by say, date, bit rate, length or whatever, instead of an all or nothing deal. Finally, with a Quad-Core iMac, and 32GB of RAM, the software hangs frequently, and will not examine the whole library in one shot, (thank heaven I am only a third of the way installed). I figure that by the time I get everything currently on my drive scanned, I will have run the program at least six times, with a wait of probably three hours on each run, (assuming a common percentage of dupes every time). This is a good idea, and I have no experience with the other products available, but it ain’t ready for prime time yet.

Why can i not select all, that was the point of me buying this or i could have done it for free one by one on iTunes. Waste my money