Duplicate albums, deleted then later reappear

Have albums which duplicate themselves. I have deleted them using delete button, emptied trash, close iPhoto, and voila, they are back when I reopen iPhoto. Same album names, now there are duplicate albums.
Power PC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

One possibility to consider is a corrupt photo database. Start iPhoto while holding the option+shift keys until you're prompted to confirm you want to rebuild. Click Save in the next dialog, and let iPhoto rebuild.

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Cheers,
Gerry

iTunes does not have any automated way of deleting duplicates.
You can identify the duplicates by
View > Show Duplicates
or
Alt + View > Show exact Duplicates
(or if you are on windows Shift+ View > Show Exact duplicates
There is a third party tol which is free to download and then register. Although the copy I tried worked fine as a trial download
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You can't do it directly on the iPad - the new album functionality basically only allows you to copy photos into those new albums, you can't move them. The way that I think of it as working is that you are just creating pointers to the photos in those new albums, so if you then delete the original photo on the iPad you therefore automatically delete all the pointers to it.
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Various ways:
Easy one: Flag the ones you want to keep (do this in the Album - Select All and Flag)
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TD

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OT

Problem with Composer info/Album Artist/ tags & duplicate albums

I recently re-organized my iTunes library, which is on a network drive in my home. Since everything had gotten moved to new directories, I deleted all the songs from my iTunes library and re-imported everything. I've never been much of a playlist person, nor did I do any ratings of songs, so I saw this as a reasonable solution.
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Welcome to AD!
I think WMP did this to random tracks in my library. Nicely filling in Album Artist & Compser on some tracks, and removing the track x of y info (the y went missing) and putting weird '0000 0A540 0000 ....'comments in the comment field.
Interesting that it only happened on the first 2 tracks of these albums - it was completely random on my files.
iTunes doesn't update track info from the internet, but WMP does. I rarely use WMP and it happened right after a WMP update. I have since turned off the option for WMP to get info from the internet.
Anyway....to fix the Cover flow & Grid views in iTunes, you have to make the Album Artist field match.
Select all the tracks from a CD, right-click > Get Info.
Answer yes , you want to edit multiple items.
Type in the Album Artist field. You can do the Composer field while you're at it, assuming you like having that info there.
Maybe there is some MP3 tag editor that would be faster, but that's the only way to do it in itunes.
Or perhaps you have backups that don't have this mess in the tags.

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Hello! I got my iPhone 5C for my upgrade on October 1st. My carrier is Sprint.
I've been trying to put my music back onto my phone that was previously on my iPod Touch, but there's a slight problem. I have an album duplication problem, as well as a capitalization problem.
As for the duplication, only one album is duplicated (I somehow fixed the other one), and it is only duplicated on my iPhone, not on iTunes. I'm positive the Artist and Album Artist are the same, as I'm a perfectionist and I want everything to be together, which is why this is bothering me so much. I've restored my iPhone 3 times and yet it's still duplicated, and I've taken the music on and off but with iOS 7 it's never really off, it just sits there and has the "Download from iCloud" button.
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In case anyone was wondering - I finally sorted this issue.
In iTunes, some of the files within the album had data input in some of the 'sort by' fields of the 'sorting' tab on their info - this led to the duplicate albums appearing in our phones - deleted the sorting data and voila, problem solved

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I have an iPod Touch 4 64gb. After upgrading to iOS 5, I have a few albums that are now duplicated in the iPod music player*. When it's connected to iTunes, there are no duplcate albums in the music list; it's got exactly what I have on the syncing computer. While the iPod had iOS 4, it didn't have any of these duplicate album issues.
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*The duplicate albums seem to have a missing track (with one having 3 missing tracks). Again, I made sure to enter all the album information with all tracks highlit so they all got the exact same informaiton without spaces, extra characters, etc.

Okay, I solved this issue as far as my iPod is concerned.
I decided to re-rip one of the album sets having the issue (I wanted it as lossless on my PC anyway, so it was due). Once it was ripped, I noticed that one of the tracks on the albums in the set was separated in iTunes, even though I'd made sure that the artist and album name were set using Get Info on all the tracks simultaniously. Apparently, each of the tracks on the album was marked as part of a compellation (even though only 1 of the 8 tracks had its own entry in the cover carousel). After unchecking that, it was back to one album in the carousel. Synced to the iPod and no duplicate album anymore.
I checked the other album having the issue and 3 of the tracks had the compellation checkmark checked. That album did *not* have separate entries in the carousel. After deleting those checkmarks, deleting the album from the iPod and re-syncing, it now shows up properly.
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type CMD into the search box to locate it
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