Duplicate song removal in Apple Music library and photos in Photos app

Aloha all , here's how to remove the duplicate songs in the music library's of all your customers, if they are all paid for then they have some sort of marker to allow it to play, RIGHT, so write a sort program to find all that are legit and tag them, then sort the rest of the duplicates and list them, then press select all duplicates and move to trash ....DONE! all that genius and you can't even write a sort. come on already.

Same for the pictures in photos or iPhoto.

Too much space is taken up on hard drives and back up drives just copying and keeping them, I have 6719 duplicate songs, 3-5 duplicates of most songs, that's 46.70 GB of wasted space for this debacle. And even more in photos. Mahalo and your welcome!



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Original Title: duplicate song removal

MacBook Air 13″

Posted on Aug 19, 2025 06:07 PM

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Aug 20, 2025 08:58 AM in response to Reid Monroe

If you pay for the Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription services then they do indeed highlight any duplicates, which are excluded from the Cloud Music Library. It is easy to sort the library in the Songs view by the cloud status, then select and remove any such duplicates, which ensures that originals are left behind. If you don't have those services see Duplicate songs in iTunes/Music - Apple Community for a brief discussion of removal techniques.


See Remove duplicate photos and videos on Mac - Apple Support and/or Merge duplicate photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support for advice on deduplicating your Photos library.


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