Duplicate Artist Names

When I scroll though the artist listing on my ipod a few of the artists are listed twice or three times....is there any way to get it so they are just on their once. They are spelled the same way and the songs are even from the same cd in some cases so I have no clue why this is happening. All the music from each artist that I have is saved in their own folder too.
Does anyone know how to fix this???

We didn't write or think you are a complete idiot.
We recommended you do something and you replied you kind of did some things similar to what we suggested.
your capital letters
What capital lettes? That is the correct way to begin sentences and proper nouns.
your ! are quite rude
Why is an exclamation point rude?
don't worry i figured it out on my own
How about posting what you did so others with the same problem can see it and won't have to put up with us "rude" people?

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Duplicate Artist Names in Menu

Not to be confused with Duplicate songs but when I look up artists on my ipod, some artist will be repeated twice and the music is split up to the two different listings of the same artist. In otherwords, it's definately not duplicated but all of the songs are split into the two different listings of the same artist, which is listed two different times in the artist listing. Is there a reason for this?? The Genre and spellings are all correct. What would be the other reason for this to happen?
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"The Genre and spellings are all correct."
Are you absolutely sure they are correct and identical?
The trailing space is the hardest to spot.
Best way to cure this is to go into iTunes, highlight that artist and/or songs, right click on them and select "get info".
This brings up the multiple song info window. If you see the "artist" field is left blank, then there is a discrepancy with that name.
So to correct this, in the artist or song box retype the name, as you would like it, and then click ok. You should do this even if no mistakes are immediately visible.
Re sync this new artist/song info to your iPod.

Itunes duplicates artists

In an effort to clean up my collection, I'm finally going through artist by artist, album by album, and culling the dupes, getting the right artwork, and matching up all album information correctly.
While this is working okay, iTunes has started to act really wonky. It will duplicate artists names in the column browser, sometimes even for the same album. When I select all the tracks by that artist and enter the name (either again, or sometimes making a phoney name and then renaming correctly) about half the time it consolidates things correctly. The other half I still end up with, say two "Cannonball Adderly"s, with different albums but the same exact name.
Worse, sometimes (like in the case of poor Cannonball) the name is placed incorrectly in the browser. For some reason Apple thinks that "Cannonball" is both a name and an article, like "The" (as in "The Beatles" where it will place it among the "B"s instead of the "T"s, which is how it should). Cannonball gets placed both in the "C"s and then, inexplicably, in the "A"s as well.
I've got the latest iTunes, have tried installing and reinstalling, and have even removed the music and reloaded it, all with no improvement. Also, on this note, I find that when I change the MP3 tags outside of iTunes (using Picard, for example) iTunes seems to have a "buffer" where it still doesn't read the meta information properly until I do a "Get Info". So I assume it's *possible* there's still a weird buffer out there I'm not removing, even on reinstallation (perhaps something in the iTunes library file itself).
My next step is to indeed wipe out that library file, but I don't want to do this lightly as it may mean a lot more work for me (will it? Isn't the ratings and most album art matches stored there? While I suppose the matches will be done again automatically, my ratings certainly won't). Any other ideas?

Hmm, have to say that recent builds of iTunes seem to have made that script less effective. Tapping next as each track starts to play might now be the most effective way of getting iTunes to pick up third party tag changes.
Deleting and reimporting, while it works, means the loss of ratings, play counts, playlist membership, date added info. etc. so should be avoided if possible.
Now Mike, back to Cannonball Adderly...
Sort fields will be responsible for his name appearing in the As as well as the Cs.
Part of compilation can make some albums not appear where they are expected.
A weird "feature" of the search box at the top right of the screen when using the Album List view is that it only searches fields that are visible in the List view. Often a smart playlist can be used to gather together items that won't play ball.
Inconsistencies between sort values for the same thing, or additional spaces in the main fields, can make what look like identical values appear listed as two or more.
iTunes is generally case insensitive, but various iPod firmware isn't.
Occasionally iTunes even refuses to merge two values when both have been edited to some new value. Closing and reopening iTunes usually fixes that one.
I have a two-year old outstanding bug report on the failure of iTunes to resort the Artists browser column in "Use Album Artists" mode after changes to the Album Artist/Sort Album Artist field. Again closing and reopening iTunes usually resolves that one.
See my article on Grouping tracks into albums for gory details.
tt2

Wierd duplication of artist names

The weirdest thing is happening with my iPod.
In the Artist list on the ipod some artists are listed twice. All of the songs by that artist are listed under both, so it's not the normal thing with an extra space or something in the artis name. The songs are not duplicated in iTunes, only on my iPod.
Anybody know what's up?

I'm having exactly the same issue, but the "apply sort field/same artist" solution did not work for me.
I know that my problem is not due to a misspelling of the artist name, nor an extra space in the artist name. The artist shows up twice on my iPod, but not in iTunes. It did not show up twice until I began using an iPod Classic this week, instead of my old iPod Photo. I updated from iTunes 7.2 to 7.5 at the same time that I switched to the iPod Classic, so I guess this could be due to either the different iPod or the different version of iTunes.
Not only do all the artist's albums appear under both artist listings, but when I play a song under one of the artist listings and then go to the duplicate one, it shows that same song playing.
I'm totally baffled!

Why why why do I have duplicate artists in my browser

I am trying to organize about 90gb of music and the itunes browser artists are a mess. For example, I have 2 Sebastian Bach albums. One is under Sebastian Bach in the Bs, and the other is alphabetized under S. Also I have artists that have THE EXACT SAME NAME, no spaces, no hidden characters, but for whatever reason they show up twice in the browser. Why can't I just drag and drop browser categories to combine artists?

In the browser, select all the artist names that should be listed once as the same artist. Now your library is only showing those tracks. Select All on those tracks showing and do a Get Info. If the Artist field is blank, you likely have more than one variation of the name, hence the duplicate listings. Type in the name you want now which will be applied to all the selected tracks the same way. Hit ok and see if the browser reduces down to the single artist selection.
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We recently upgraded our systems (all client and server) to SP2.7 in order to solve a problem with saving Crystal Reports to BW. Now we are experiencing a new error when trying to publish a Crystal Report from BW to BOE (either all in one step from Crystal Reports application or directly from within BW).
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Ingo,
Apologies for the delayed response. We've spent a few days poking around with this issue, and had even opened a customer message for it (13641).
In the end, it seems that the problem was somehow associated with the "Prepare this report for translation." flag in the "Save to BW Options" dialog box of Crystal Reports. If we try to Save & Publish with the Translation flag selected, we get the duplicate entry error. If we Save & Publish without the Translation flag selected, everything is fine.
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hello,
a friend of mine put all of his tracks onto a CD and gave me the CD to import to my library.
When I did this I noticed a convenient behavior which I have not been able to reproduce. iTunes automatically ID'ed both the song and artist name and separated them in iTunes to their corresponding columns.
when i do this, both artist and song name are lumped together into the song name column and i have to separate and cut and paste them out.
My friend put the albums in folders then a sub folder for artists and then inside that folder there were the song files.
How did he do it? I think it has something to do with using dashes or forward slashes or folders in the song file names, but I'm not sure how it works.

Hello ,
For iTunes :
Created a copy of the files in iTunes folder .
But before you delete the files from the desktop ,
I suggest you check .
Finder > music > iTunes > iTunes Media
For iPhoto :
I do not use this software so I do not know but
I can assume it's the same thing as iTunes .

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I planned on kicking off my journey attempting to edit a massive multi year documentary on FCPX with a nice introduction of the blog I'm going to keep about the experience, but I've run into a bit of a roadblock, or maybe major speed bump at least before even getting to that point. I wanted to share what is working as a work around for me and you guys can tell me how I'm doing it wrong.
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This will be my 10th feature documentary as an Editor. Every one before it was either on Avid's many flavors over the last 12 years or FCP Studio. When this new film came along, I made the decision a few months ago to use FCPX for a few reasons, but mostly because I'm insane and I like to try to mix it up for myself in a career that can get stale quick if you aren't willing to be that way. The film was shot over 2+ years, every shoot was multi cam 5D (yes i know, looks great, but please kill me), I haven't done the math on length, but there is over 10,000 clips of video (this is actually medium in size compared to what I've dealt with before). Its 5D, so theres external audio for everything. FCPX's syncing is great, but I've learned that theres an unsaid window of heads and tales clips must fall within to sync properly with the nearby clips, if they are too far apart FCPX gives up. One shoot day could have 3 cams, 50 clips each, and 2 audio files to sync to, FCPX simply cannot handle this, so off to Plural eyes they went, no problems.
Ok, all this is relevant eventually I swear! Again, in the past, all in one event, no problem. I tried for fun to bring all media into one Event on this film. It worked, but there is a 10+ second spinning beach ball for every single move you make, so thats no good. Ok, I'll separate the Events out to, lets say, each shoot month. Well that's dumb, in verite documentary, any shot could be the first, any shot could be the last, you need a command over all searchable footage at all times. Shift selecting all events to search *****, and it actually takes longer for FCP to reload each event each time than it does to just have the one massive one. So no go there. Next hair brained idea... What if make a new Event that is just Compound Clips of all the other Event's contents and do more with Markers and Favorites in logging that I was planning to parse it all out. That way I'm working with and FCPX is dealing with 50-60 clips instead of 10,000+ Quick test, Cmd-A, Opt-G, boom, boom, boom, move all to dedicated to Event, hide huge Event, BEHOLD, that works! FCPX chokes a little bit on the insane length of some of the clips, but searching, and general performance is back on par!
So your saying to yourself "Ok *********, sounds like you figured it out, what's the problem." Well to you I say, "Not so fast!" Remember, that was just a quick test using the media I had imported into the massive 10,000+ clip Event. To do this project proper, I am having to import Multicam sync'd XMLs from Plural Eyes. And this is where it all starts to fall apart. A little foreshadowing for your eager eyes. 10,000+ files all shot with multiple 5D's over the course of years. What does that mean? many, many duplicate file names!
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Sorry for the long confusing post....

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in the main library, artist names are dissapeared, there is only one:
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Hello John,
Thank you for contacting Adobe® Web Support for assistance with Adobe
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I understand that images are deleted if you accidentally try to move
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I was able to replicate
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I will report this to the product team through my channels. You may want to submit this issue through the web form as it goes directly to the product development team.
I hope this information helps to resolve your issue. If you require
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