When I added all of the tracks from our server to my iTunes library, I had a lot of duplicate tracks. On my laptop, I had the protected AAC files, and the server has the mp3 format versions.
First I used iTunes "Show Duplicate Tracks" menu item to display all of the duplicate tracks. Then I selected all of the tracks and created a playlist with those. Then I ran this script which puts all of the duplicate tracks that are located on the server into a new playlist.
set pathToServer to "Music:"
tell application "iTunes"
if not (exists (some playlist whose name is "toBeDeleted")) then
set new_playlist to (make new playlist with properties {name:"toBeDeleted"})
else
set mySource to container of view of front window
set new_playlist to playlist "toBeDeleted"
end if
repeat with t from 1 to count of every file track of playlist "Duplicate tracks"
with timeout of 300000 seconds
try
set aTr to (file track t of library playlist 1)
set trackLoc to location of aTr as string
if ((offset of (pathToServer as string) in trackLoc) is 1) then
-- This track came from Shrook
-- the track has not been added to playlist
duplicate aTr to new_playlist
end if
end try
end timeout
end repeat
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
if not (exists (some playlist whose name is "toBeDeleted")) then
set new_playlist to (make new playlist with properties {name:"toBeDeleted"})
else
set mySource to container of view of front window
set new_playlist to playlist "toBeDeleted"
end if
repeat with t from 1 to count of every file track of playlist "Duplicate tracks"
with timeout of 300000 seconds
try
set aTr to (file track t of library playlist 1)
set trackLoc to location of aTr as string
if ((offset of (pathToServer as string) in trackLoc) is 1) then
-- This track came from Shrook
-- the track has not been added to playlist
duplicate aTr to new_playlist
end if
end try
end timeout
end repeat
end tell
Then all I had to do was delete the tracks in the "toBeDeleted" playlist.
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