Song Sweeper is a first-of-its-kind iPhone app for cleaning up messy Apple Music libraries. Find duplicate songs across different albums, unify album editions, surface songs you no longer listen to so you can remove them, and favorite your most-played tracks to improve recommendations.
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I’m excited to share Song Sweeper. This started from a personal frustration. Like a lot of people, my music library has grown over the years - and with Apple Music making it so easy to add anything, it got messy fast. Duplicate songs. Albums split across editions. Tracks I added years ago and never listen to anymore. I went looking for a product to help clean up my library, and I couldn’t find one that really solved the problem. So I built it myself. Song Sweeper is an iPhone app that helps you clean up and organize your Apple Music library by finding duplicate songs, consolidating split albums, surfacing your least-played songs, and more. If you use Apple Music and your library has gotten a little chaotic over the years, I’d love for you to check it out. And if you try it, I’d genuinely love your feedback - good, bad, and brutally honest.
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Nice initiative, would love to use this on other music platforms since I do not use apple music, where I have multiple versions of the same song, for example remastered, the original one, alternative versions of the same songs all somewhere in the "liked songs"
In this category, “explainability” may matter as much as detection accuracy for retention. Would you consider adding a decision card for each cleanup action (why it was marked duplicate, why keep A/delete B, and rollback window) so users feel safer doing bulk actions?
I like the idea. It's a pain point with all that old stuff.
One question here, I share my Apple Music account with my kids, so my library is full of Disney soundtracks and nursery rhyme compilations mixed in with everything else. When Song Sweeper surfaces tracks I "no longer listen to," will it flag all the kids' music for removal?
Is there a way to tag or exclude certain styles from cleanup?
The duplicate detection across different albums is the feature I've wanted for years I have the same song from the original album, a deluxe edition, and a live recording all showing up separately and it drives me crazy. Curious how it handles the edge case where two versions are actually different enough to keep, like a studio version versus a meaningfully different live recording. Does it let you preview both before deciding or does it make the call automatically? Also the tagline about your library reflecting who you are today versus 10 years ago genuinely resonated — that's exactly what a cluttered music library feels like.
Visualizing the 'clutter' is a great way to start cleaning up. Does the app provide a preview of the songs it's about to remove before the final sweep? Great work on this!
This is such a specific problem that I didn't know I needed solved until right now. My library is genuinely embarrassing with how messy everything is. Love that you built this out of personal frustration, always makes for the best products. Quick question, any plans to expand beyond Apple Music, like Spotify support down the line?
Cool feature guys! Really like it! Quick question: how do you detect duplicates — by metadata, audio fingerprinting, or MusicKit matching?
Idea: I would need a tool that would swap my old 128kbps songs for 320kbps for better quality. 😅
Wow! it sounds so useful! Just a question - does it make sure to delete the right duplication? For example - sometimes iTunes uploads the same album twice, but one of the duplications is not available for playing when you press on it.