“The Music app has duplicated every song. How can I stop this from happening and how can I get rid of the duplicate files? I have thousands of albums in my library…”
Many people complain duplicate songs in Music/iTunes app, while this is caused by kinds of reasons: Importing music from different sources or syncing music with multiple devices. Although Music/iTunes app is not able to delete duplicate songs automatically, it do offers a simple feature for you to efficiently find and delete duplicate songs. Keep reading.
iTunes or Music may create duplicates if the same content is repeatedly added from outside the media folder when it is set to make copies of anything that is added to the library, or is added from an external drive that hosts the media folder if it was offline when iTunes or Music was launched.
Reimporting locally stored media or redownloading from the cloud, depending on various settings in the library and the location of the files generate new copy of files in the media folder. The trailing digits are used when iTunes or Music wants to create a new local copy of a file at a specific path when there is an existing file there.
Besides, some songs are listed in Apple Music more than once. Sometimes it is a normal and deluxe version of an album, sometimes it’s clean and explicit, and sometimes a song is on a compilation of many artists.
The short answer is no. Songs in your Music/iTunes library can come from different sources (online source, CD, etc. ), so Music/iTunes does not want to assume a “duplicated” song is really a duplicate song. For example, you may have the same song from two different albums, the original album and a separate “Best of” album. It may be the same song, but with different album info. Or you may have two different recordings of the same song from the same artist, a “studio” recording and a “live” recording. So, there’s no (potentially dangerous) feature to “delete duplicates” in Music/iTunes.
On Mac
1. Open Music app on your Mac. Click Songs in the sidebar.
2. Choose File > Library > Show Duplicate Items.
3. Now duplicate songs are displayed on the page.
To find exact duplicates, hold down the Option key, then choose File > Library > Show Exact Duplicate Items.
On Windows
On Mac
1. Select the duplicate song you want to delete, press the Delete key.
2. Do one of the following:
Or delete the song from all of your devices using Cloud Music Library.
On Windows
NOTE: To select multiple (non-consecutive) song at the same time on a Music/iTunes list, press and hold down the Option and Command keys, then click songs on list. All clicked songs are selected at the same time. Then, press Delete on keyboard.
If every song is duplicated in your Apple Music library, just signed out, then signed back in, and the duplicates will be gone.
The best way to make Apple Music louder is to download Apple Music songs to MP3 and play them with other music player, like QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player, etc.
Audio signal compression is what every streaming service does on their end when they get the mixed and mastered PCM files from the labels and distributors. Audio signal compression also adds a bit, but not very noticeable dynamic compression, the main part is the compression in terms of file size.
Pazu Apple Music converter allows you to download Apple Music songs with original quality on Mac and Windows with all ID3 tags.
Download, install and run Pazu Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows.
The default format is M4A in 256kbps. Apple Music Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. Click the gear icon if you want to change output format or output folder.
Follow the on-screen instructions to choose a playlist, artist, or album that you want to download.
Click “Convert” button to start downloading Apple Music songs to mp3, so you can play them anywhere you want, even after cancelling Apple Music subscription.
Download Apple Music to MP3, M4A, etc.