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The genres of songs that I purchase in iTunes are in Dutch, because I'm Dutch and therefore the language of my iTunes Store is also Dutch. If I import songs from a CD, however, the genres are in English. The result is that most of the genres are present twice, once in Dutch and once in English. I know how to change the genre of songs, but it's getting rather tedious to clean up my genres every time I import something.
Is there a way to get the genres in Dutch when importing CD titles? Is this a CDDB issue, an iTunes issue or a OS X localisation issue?
Regards,
-Eric

I ran into the same problem, I think that, If you tab on a song that is on your IPOD, and the song data is grayed-out, I think it means that the song is probably twice on your IPOD and that the iTunes directory can not edit THAT song data for two (or more) files @once. Check if this is the case, sinceI have the same problem,am looking for a way to have One and the same song in more playlists but only keep the song once on the IPOD.

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