(I think this is my first blog post...... Ever.)

Firstly before I dive head first in, let me start by saying. Hello Again, Gamespot. I have not been around the Forums much nor have I been a very active member in the past few years. Instead of playing games I have been developing some of my own creations, and had little time for else. So it's time to get back into it.

I Play Xbox Live, my Gamer Tag is available to anyone who wants to add me. And no it's not ice_mann_117. :-)

So Anyway, let's jump right in to it.

I am a very big Apply Fan. Quite literally the only Microsoft Endorsed piece of equimpement that I own is my xbox 360. Recently, the Apple dev teams put together a re-vamp of iTunes. The Decade old mundane music player that was synonymous with a bland user interface and steadily increasing clunky features, was given a new light.

I personally enjoy the new iTunes and the features that it has to offer. The breakdown of album structure, and the abolishment of Cover Flow. I never really cared about cover flow. Lately I have seen an influx of complaints that the remove duplicates feature is missing and/or gone completely! After posting solution to the Apple's very own forum and catching a boat load of haze around whiners who won't pay apple 25 dollars per year for iTunes match, however they will pay upwards of 50 dollars for some arbitrary library cleaning tool. So speaking of of Libraries Let's jump into how to remove duplicates.... my findings anyway......

So you have just moved a boat load of files around or, you have moved most of your media to an external storage device and you want to re-point your library there so that you can get rid of all those nasty ! sitting besides your songs, however, in doing so, you get the ! to go away except for now almost every song in your library has been duplicated. Here is how I have found the remove duplicates. . . I am subscribed to iTunes match, I could go into the features but the only ones we need to know here is that it does not allow for duplicate songs to be matched, and it only allows 25,000 songs to be matched (Let's be serious, more than 25,000 songs gets to be a bit much). Anyway, next I click on view and iCloud Status, this will show me if the song has been matched, waiting, inelegible, or duplicate. I then update iTunes match, I have about 8,000 songs, so it matched 16,000, which took sometime. After matching the songs it only matched each of the songs once thus only leaving available for cloud download 8,000 songs. In the iCloud status column I now have 8,000 songs that say "Duplicate". Click the column header to sort these by duplicates first, Shift or option click the 1st song through the last, and delete the files. There it is.

In my opinion it is a bit easier to find the duplicates now in iTunes 11, where as before novice users would wind up deleting all versions of a song instead of duplicate, the only bad thing is I haven't spent anytime looking into how duplicates work if you haven't been synced with iTunes Match.

So Now is the part where I could rant about the incompetence of some beings in which I have encountered while merely trying to point out there is a solution, whether it be the one you were thinking of or not. It exists. But I won't. We will save pessimism for a less optimistic day. I hope this finds you well.