Comments on: iTunes Sucks at Handling Duplicates

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:25:36 +0000

going crazy over here, hope apple will fix this issue one day

By: tuned out

tuned out — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:03:54 +0000

And here i thought i was the only one who had issues with iTunes.
I love my ipod but I am really getting tired of endless duplicates and missing files. It might not be so bad if I was starting from scratch but when you already have thousands of files on a shared computer it’s nearly impossible to kep your iTunes library organized.
if i could sync my iPod with Media Player I would be a very happy man.

By: Erami

Erami — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:30:16 +0000

I am so frustrated with itunes. It is the most non-user friendly software I’ve ever run into. Too bad we are all so obsessed with the Ipod and iphone image. We all want to have one, even if we can’t figure out how to use it. I wonder what percentage of people who have one of these toys really know how to use them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:14:00 +0000

This has been a serious complaint for YEARS with iTunes. For the life of me I can't understand why Steve 'ol Boy doesn't revamp this and brag about it at his big shows. If there was ANY other decent alternative with my Ipods or Iphone, I'd be all over it.

Lloyd Claycomb said in his latest blog that iTunes is supposed to be coming out with a better duplicate notification system and a smarter engine, but you never know with Apple since they don't say anything until it's out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:28:00 +0000

At least now I know why I kept getting duplicates in my library. What doesn’t make sense to me is that once the music is imported into my library, itunes still has to be able to find it in its original location, otherwise it can’t sync up. Because I’ve imported music from different computers on my home network, I can’t properly sync my library unless all computers are up and running with a good network connection.

Now if I could just get itunes to stop taking 30 seconds or more for me to change the artist name on a single file – I imported a lot of mp3s that have the artist and song title in the file name, so this is a major inconvenience. Changing the title of the songs takes much less time, for some reason. In any event, it’s still a clunky interface.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:01:00 +0000

As a person that works in QA testing software, I found iTunes to be the dumbest most unintuitive software package I’ve ever used in my life. I had to mess with it because my wife’s work gave her a new 16gb iPhone and I had to use iTunes to upload all her songs and pictures. I’m still trying to figure the thing out. Who designed this crap?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:29:00 +0000

We agree 150% !!
iTunes is Apple-centered software, jurassic minded interface design. Not user friendly, not 21st Century.
We are angry today because we will have to delete about 3000 duplicates manually!
iTunes is free but is stupid!

By: peate

peate — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:09:00 +0000

I have the same problem over and over and now I handle it the following way:
I have one external itunes library and one mobile itunes library.
The way this works out is obvious.
But there is one more stupid thing about it, every time u want to add or import a file, you have to change the folder in the itunes prefs to the one u use for the library.

maybe not the best solution, but it works out fine for me. And because of these stupid dupes I have get used to keep my mp3 files VERY organized.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:07:00 +0000

http://www.woodenbrain.com/sw/iDupe/idupe.html

By: C.J.

C.J. — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:17:00 +0000

i 5th (?) the dupin vote.
the only piece of shareware i have purchased in the last 6 months. well worth the $15.

developer is nice and responsive with questions, also.