Duplicate Songs!!! But only one plays... HELP!
Please help... in my entire library i have 2 songs listed. One plays and the other has an exclamation point next to it. How can i delete all the copies of songs w/ exclamation point at the same time without going thru all 7,000 songs one at a time and hitting the delete button?
There is a difference between duplicate music files and duplicate library entries.
Have you re-organised your music files? Have you run the evil "Consolidate Music Library" command? Or added directories to the library after reorganisation?
I've had similar problems and I've deleted the library and had iTunes rebuild the library. Sure, you lose some library specific data. It also depends on all your music being contained in a single directory (plus sub directories). Long ago, I learnt the lesson of letting iTunes organising my music and copying any music it played via double-clicking to the iTunes music directory.
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Hi,
I'm not sure what my iPod is exactly. It's a 40GB mono screen iPod, about five years old. I thought that made it a 'classic' but perhaps not... anyway.
Since I updated iTunes last, the update deauthorised my accounts on my MacBook. One of these was my current account and I've got that up and running again fine. The second one was an old account from when I was on AOL which the nice Apple people kindly helped me convert into an Apple ID account and that, too, is now running again on my MacBook.
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Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Greetings!
After importing my 300 or so CDs into iTunes, I found I have tons of duplicate songs.
Example: I have a song that came in a original album, then in again in a "Greatest Hits" album, then again in a "Hits of the 80's" album, and again in a soundtrack album. I have now have 4 copies of the exact same song.
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I don't think this currently exists, but as my library keeps growing the duplicates keep growing. It would be nice if Apple sees this and adds a way to link songs to multiple albums.
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Apple's official advice is here... HT2905 - How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
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(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed)
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Try deleting the problematic tune (electing to remove original file if/when prompted) and then re-downloading the file from the iTunes store.
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iOS: How to back up
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Have you verified that it is the headphone jack that is the problem by trying opther sets of headphones?
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Update!
This is what I did to fix both the skipping songs problem and the iPod verifying forever & not able to restore problem (because of iTunes 9):
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363?viewlocale=en_US
and here:
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How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495
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http://www.nerdsonsite.com/blog/2012/06/07/help-im-appleid-confused/
Cheers, Tom
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