This evidently happened in early August as well causing outages seen far and wide.

I will have the remaining parts of the site up by the end of the week.

Thanks for staying in touch!

That can be easily fixed by matching it to the artist, but I didn’t care. I made the script because I really don’t mind losing some songs that have duplicate names. If you don’t like the idea of losing the songs that might be named the same then I recommend the commercial software that checks stuff like that. I have a medium iTunes library and I didn’t really care if a few went away. I also don’t have that large of a hard-drive so I don’t want to have to consolidate my iTunes Library.

The script is based off of the Dead Track Removal script that Apple provided.

1. All you have to do is copy the script below and save it as a .JSE file.

2. After that, double click on it with iTunes closed and it should start its work.

While the script doesn’t do anything but remove the tracks that have duplicate titles please remember:

The script is provided by Lurous Production on an “AS IS” basis. LUROUS MAKES NO
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, REGARDING THE “SCRIPT” OR ITS USE AND OPERATION ALONE OR IN
COMBINATION WITH YOUR PRODUCTS.

IN NO EVENT SHALL LUROUS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE, REPRODUCTION, MODIFICATION
AND/OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE “SCRIPT”, HOWEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER UNDER
THEORY OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE,
EVEN IF LUROUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Anyways, without further a-do, here’s the script:

Source code

var ITTrackKindFile = 1;
var iTunesApp = WScript.CreateObject("iTunes.Application");
var usedNames = new Array();
var deletedTracks = 0;
var mainLibrary = iTunesApp.LibraryPlaylist;
var tracks = mainLibrary.Tracks;
var numTracks = tracks.Count;
var i;
var j;
var currTrackName;
var found = 0;
 
while (numTracks != 0)
{
    var currTrack = tracks.Item(numTracks);
 
    // is this a file track?
    if (currTrack.Kind == ITTrackKindFile)
    {
        found = 0;
        currTrackName = currTrack.Name;
        for (j = 0; j < usedNames.length; j++)
        {
            if (found == 0) {
                if (currTrack.Name == usedNames[j])
                {
                    //Track Name Used.
                    currTrack.Delete();
                    found = 1;
                    deletedTracks++;
                }
            } else {
                break;
            }
        }
 
        // It survived.
        usedNames.push(currTrackName);
    }
 
    numTracks--;
}
 
if (deletedTracks > 0)
{
    if (deletedTracks == 1)
    {
        WScript.Echo("Removed 1 duplicate track.");
    }
    else
    {
        WScript.Echo("Removed " + deletedTracks + " duplicate tracks.");
    }
}
else
{
    WScript.Echo("No duplicate tracks were found.");
}