Duplicate Songs and Links to Playlists

Hi. I have many instances of this problem: I've imported a song from an original album as well as a greatest hits collection, and I have them in different playlists. Does anyone know how to delete one of the songs from the Library and automatically have both playlists point to and use the same song? Deleting one of them now also deletes it from its corresponding playlist. It sure would be helpful if, in my Library, I could see a directory of all songs and the playlists that use them. Thanks.

Go to Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes (web search will turn it up quick) and there you will find at least one, if not others, scripts to help find and group duplicates to ease quick deletion.
Patrick

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Try resetting your iPod, press and hold the power and the home buttons together approximately 15 seconds until the Apple logo appears. If that does not work try going into Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. If that does not work try connecting to you iTunes library via the cable and un-sync the library from your iPod then sync the library. For the next 2 options backup your iPod first, then do a Restore iPod from backup, if that doesn't work... As a last resort Restore your iPod as New. I too had the red circle and square after updating to 7.0.4 the last resort fixed mine, others have reported doing all the above, all have had reports of fixing the problem and not fixing it. Give it a try, hopefully one of these works, Good luck.

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They will only be where you put them. They do not magically appear in new places.
Have you copied them from your old computer to your new one?

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Ok heres the problem and its been going on far too long for me....
Every **** time I want to create a playlist on itunes and then drag it to my ipod I get duplicate songs that show up on my ipod. I know exactly why its happening. Because there are tiny differences from some of the files in the playlist then from when I first added them to my ipod (for example, lets say I added "Purple Haze" to my ipod then later discovered Purple Haze had a space at the end of the title, so I removed it on the file in itunes but NOT on the ipod, and now if Purple Haze is one of the songs in this new hypothetical playlist i've created it will show up on the ipod twice). I get that. Problem is, I have created a playlist now and 10 out of the 50 songs that were on it were I guess changed in some way shape or form since I last added them to the ipod. I tried cancelling it but a few got thru ..and I have no idea which of the 50 songs were the ones that got duplicated. This REALLY infuriates me man because it happens all the time. How can it be 2011 and an ipod cant just recognize these files are the same? Or better yet, just UPDATE the old song automatically with whatever changed about the old file (for instance, if it was Purple Haze with the space on the ipod before, if I throw a playlist from itunes with Purple Haze without the space on it, why cant the ipod just UPDATE the previous file with the space and take the **** space out rather then adding another file). It would also be nice if I could just go to the ipod (when its connected to itunes) and sort by Date Modified or something and see which ones were the ones that were duplicated. But i cant, it just keeps the last modified date of the song on itunes not on the ipod ..i dont know if im making sense here but I really hope someone can "show me the way" because I just refuse to believe that this is just the way it is ..its gota be something im doing wrong here. So please someone, school me!

You are just making work for yourself by dragging songs to your iPod manually.
I have manually manage music and videos turned off. I sync my iPods using selected playlists. Whenever I make a change in a selected playlist, it is automatically synced the next time I connect my iPod. If I decide I don't want a particular playlist on my iPod any more, I just deselect it. If I change anything about a song in one of my playlist, the change is automatically synced.
Watch these 2 video tutorials and see if you want to make things easier on yourself:
Creating playlists: http://support.apple.com/kb/VI71?viewlocale=en_US
Syncing your iPod: http://support.apple.com/kb/VI72?viewlocale=en_US

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Hello Shanette,
You may want to set up your iPod classic to manually manage the music. That way, you can just drag the new songs to the iPod and also search for and delete duplicates.
This box would need to be checked if you are manually managing content over to your iPod:
You can find the full article here:
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1535
Once you have that enabled and your iPod selected, you can use iTunes' feature of showing duplicate items so that you can see them all at once and delete the duplicates that you want to remove:
Choose File > Display Duplicates to show duplicate items (matches are based on the song name and artist). If you have multiple versions of the same song (for example, live and studio versions, or versions from different albums) you can hold the Alt or Option key (for Mac OS X) or the Shift key (for Windows) and choose File > Display Exact Duplicates. This will show only duplicate songs having the same name, artist, and album.
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How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2905
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I have a ton of songs and albums that are like that. Some albums have differnet artwork too. Will match compare these to itunes and make them all unified?

The only exception is that If it finds an *exact* duplicate (tags and all), it will not upload it; however, it will still leave both copies in your original library (one will have a little cloud with a line through it next to it).

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On my iTunes I am unable to delete any songs from my iPhone, nor am I able to select the 'Display Duplicates' or Delete them either. I can't even rename a song!
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tt2

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I am new to this forum.
Here is my requirement....
I have some 8gb songs on my iphones. I want make plalists on my choice of songs for example Playlist-1, Playlist-2 etc.,
My requirement is I want to play that Playlist-1 on Sunday 7am only NOT other days. I want to play Playlist-2 on Tuesday at 10am only and to play Playlist-3 on Monday 9am and Thursday 11pm... and so on.
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If you drag items to the shuffle in iTunes, you are loading songs manually. Dragging playlists to the shuffle loads the songs, but not the playlists.
If you created playlists in iTunes, you should set up automatic syncing. Here's how to do that...
Select the shuffle in the sidebar, under DEVICES. Near the top of the window, there is a bar of buttons, starting with Summary. Click Music next to Summary. This is the shuffle's Music screen, where you tell iTunes how to sync songs.
Check the box for Sync Music. Below that, choose the option to sync Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. In your case, find and checkmark those playlists you want under Playlists. You don't need to use the other lists for Artists, Albums, and Genres.
When you click Apply, the songs on those playlists and the playlists sync to the shuffle. Going forward, to update songs on the shuffle, just update the songs on those playlists (add/remove songs) in your iTunes library. The shuffle does not need to be connected. The next time you connect the shuffle (or click Sync if already connected), the same changes sync automatically to the shuffle.
Now, you can use VoiceOver to select the playlists on the shuffle.

Help! my itunes Deleted a bunch of my songs and all my playlists!

I logged onto to itunes this morning and found probably 1200 of my 1400 songs gone. My playlists were also gone. The only songs there were the ones I bought from itunes (not fron Amazon or CDs or something) All of the songs that were there said that they had zero plays (which is false) and when I clicked on each song it had to download to play (like it was playing from the cloud). The music that is missing is still on my ipod and is also saved to my computer but I don't want to have to drag and drop 1000+ songs. Is there any way to get my songs back without having to drag and drop each of them? Is there a way I can get my playlists back? Finally, does anyone have any idea how this happened or how I can prevent it from happening again? Thanks.

They probably pressed and hold, Control Option Command and click 8
That's the shortcut for the option Paul refers to.
Captfred

Will iTunes select all exact duplicate songs and delete each duplicate?

I have about 20K exact duplicates and would like to have iTunes select and remove one dulicalte of each song to avoid manually selecting ever other song and removing. Possible?

Itunes will not do that. You can check third party utilties such as Dupin (Duplin?). I would not trust any utilty to automatically delete duplicates. There's a few tracks I have on albums where they are given the identical name but are not identical. A tool would not tell that.
iTunes will find duplicates, but then it's up to you to decide if they truly are. Be careful. Occasionally an item somehow gets listed twice and if you delete the "duplicate" plus file it deletes the orginal too. I always hand sort duplicates.

How do I search for songs and artists within playlists?

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So how the heck do we search within playlists, where is the search bar or where is the option to search in a specific playlist?

Top right hand corner of the store is the search bar. Just type it in, and it shows up.

HT2905 Duplicate songs and syncing.

Two questions:
1) I have the latest version of itunes and it has duplicated all my songs - 3500. The only advice I can find is how to delete them one at a time, not feasible with 3500. Does anyone know a solution to this?
2) Is there any chance that Apple will show any respect to its customers anytime soon? I don't want to sync my iTunes, I want to choose which songs that I have paid for that I put on the iPhone that I have paid for from the Macbook that I have paid for. Is there an alternative to iTunes, because the recent change to syncing is utterly terrible. My iPhone is so full of music that I can't take a single photo, because iTunes synced it. I am unable to rectify this, I think because I have seleceted albums (I am not allowed to select songs because apparently that is forbidden in this new age) but those albums have been duplicated by iTunes, which means it simply says the new sync can't happen because there isn't enough space on the iPhone. This despite the fact that the little bar at the bottom of the screen that shows the memory used is only about at half of the 16G memory. Very bored with this now.

If your iPhone syncs with iTunes you need to tidy up in iTunes, then sync, not try to edit the content of the iPhone manually within iTunes.
I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
If the device has duplicates, but iTunes doesn't, then you can swipe and delete all duplicated items directly on the iPhone, then sync with iTunes to put the songs back onto the device. One of the iTunes build seem to have the potential to leave orphaned tracks on the device which are then not cleared up by further syncing.
See also: Grouping tracks into albums for duplicate cover issues.
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