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Is there a quick and easy way to remove duplicate songs?

Sometimes when I import albums or songs into iTunes, it adds them twice, and I end up with duplicates. I know you can go to View -> Show Duplicates, but there is no way (that I can find) that automatically removes all the duplicate songs in one fell swoop. (Note that I only want to remove the second instance via soft delete, that is, the "Keep Files" option is used.)

Is there an official way of doing what I want that I can't find, or is there some kind of third party Automater script that can do this?
[523 byte] By [Quillz] at [2007-11-11 20:53:33]
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# 1 Re: Is there a quick and easy way to remove duplicate songs?
ITunes doesn't know which one of the songs is the duplicate, only you can tell. So it's manual work, yes.
But a tip is to sort by "Date added" to get them sorted together. Much easier to select a bunch then.
Essin at 2007-11-15 16:08:17 >
# 2 Re: Is there a quick and easy way to remove duplicate songs?
Essin YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH TIME YOU SAVED ME with that idea, I NEVER thougt of that , im new to ipods but i just got a 160gb classic, well short story is last night not knowing what Lossless audio was, since zune didnt have it I decided to convert 70gb of music to lossless audio, and went to sleep only to wake up to a screen on my pc which said that on my 320gb HD i only had 768k remaining LOL, not even enough to run system restore so upon deleting files in a hurry i got the system restore up only to find out that it NEVER EVER created a restore point... SO THANK YOU!
PureSkills at 2007-11-15 16:09:17 >
# 3 Re: Is there a quick and easy way to remove duplicate songs?
PureSkillz, you can't convert lossy music into lossless.
Well, you can, technically, but it's futile :)
Essin at 2007-11-15 16:10:16 >
# 4 Re: Is there a quick and easy way to remove duplicate songs?
LOL and now I see the light LOL, too bad it took me nearly LOSING my pc in the process but I learned..

:::ahem:::: "hey mr jobs you may wanna just gray out that menu option considering its pointless..."
PureSkills at 2007-11-15 16:11:22 >
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