How do I remove duplicate and 'can't locate' music files in Apple Music?

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How do I remove duplicate and 'can't locate' music files in Apple Music?

Had 2 hard drives crash. One was my music library and the other was my time machine backup tip. So 80,000 songs got hosed. I was able to recover a lot but now I have duplicate and triplicate songs. Is there a tool to go in and trash the duplicates and also get rid of the "can't locate" files. I spoke to Apple support and they gave me a bunch of tools to try. Needless to say they're all geared for iTunes NOT Music.Any ideas??

Thanks in advance for any ideas. I checked the forum and everything, including suggested tools, all talk about iTunes NOT Music. ThanksApple! I was really happy with iTunes......

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Original Title: Restoring Music

iPad Pro, iPadOS 18

Posted on Aug 25, 2025 02:49 PM

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Phil0124

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Aug 25, 2025 03:11 PM in response to Joe Banko

Start here ➜ Duplicate songs in iTunes / Apple Music - Apple Community

Dupin as suggested works win Apple Music (macOS 10.15 and later) and should be helpful in finding duplicates and removing them if you don't want to go through all of them manually. It offers a free demo, but you may need to buy it for full de-duplication.

https://dougscripts.com/apps/dupinapp.php

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