Itunes copies every song double in Finder!

Finder has double the size of GB of what Itunes states. Every song is being copied (sometimes 4 times!!) and sometimes stored in a different place . Since I have thousands of songs it is virtually impossible to look for every song and delete it. Is there an easy way and how do I prevent it making copies?!!
HELP!!!

I have already tried that. When I first downloaded iTunes to my new computer, it asked if I wanted to import all my music. I said "yes" and it went through about 5 hours of converting music, and when it was done, my iTunes library listed all my songs atleast twice.
So I deleted the iTunes music folder (so when I opened up iTunes, it didn't list ANY songs in my library). I made sure the box that gave me the option to copy songs into iTunes library, was NOT checked. I then went to My Music, selected the files, and dragged them to the iTunes music folder. Once again it went through hours of a conversion process and then listed each song at least twice in the iTunes library.
Is my mistake that I am copying my songs to the iTunes library? If I'm not supposed to do that, how do I get music into the iTunes library? This is the 3rd or 4th new computer I've installed iTunes on in the last 4-5 years and I've never had a problem like this before.... it's getting frustrating!

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ITunes jumbo sizes my Music Folder - copies every song twice!

*Here is my problem:*
Three days ago I had 70+ GB free on my 500GB internal hard drive. Today I have 3.62 GB free. I believe that iTunes is at fault.
*Here is what happened:*
I was lounging around my apartment with iTunes playing after having just upgraded to version 7.4.0. When I came back to my iMac, I had two alerts on my screen saying that my hard disk was full. (Screenshots available on my .Mac page at <http://homepage.mac.com/mk2ja/Sites/DiskFull/>.)
In my iTunes Library, it shows that I have 16.65 GB worth of music. But when I go to my Music Folder, it shows that I have 70 GB of music files. "How can this be?" I asked. Well, it turns out that SOMEHOW nearly every one of my songs has been copied and renamed back into the same folder.
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A song in the folder +username > Music > iTunes > iTunes Music > The Beatles > Greatest Hits 1962-1970 > Hey Jude.m4a+ now also has sisters named +Hey Jude 1.m4a+ and +01 Hey Jude.m4a+.
In this true-to-life example, the album that contains only 25 songs in my Library has 74 songs, yes, SEVENTY FOUR songs, when shown in the Music Folder. So what should be only 68.3 MB is actually 202.3 MB on disk.
I have regained about 3 GB of my space by going through my Library, song by song, and making sure it only occurs once in my Music Folder, but I still have thousands of songs left to go through. And it *****.
Now, to be completely honest, I have noticed this phenomenon before. I have known that several albums' folders were housing duplicates, and I had been slowly working my way through correcting them all when I had time. But the sudden loss of about 70 GB and crippled me completely is just really ticking me off. This is like the last straw after having a bad week with iTunes already... first, album artwork started randomly disappearing. Then, if iTunes was paused while I went to class, it would have to be Quit and reopened before I could play again. And it jumbo sized my Music folder?? Come on! What ever happened to "It just works"!? Ah!
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If somebody could let me know WHY iTunes hates me, and what I can do to fix it. Please, that'd be great.
If anybody from Apple who works in iTunes reads this, could you please work on making iTunes NOT do this in future? This isn't the first time it has copied my Library, as I mentioned above.
Thanks for your time.
And please.. tell me how to make it stop!

First off, I am still trying to figure out why iTunes copied all the songs in my Library, as I described previously.
However, I seem to have finally found the culprit of my lost disk space. After approximately six weeks of going through tons of files, I finally came across a file of the same size as the space I had lost before: theHardDrive/Library/Logs/Console/501/console.log.5 was a 76.71 GB file. Yes, you read that correctly - 76 gigs! I just deleted the entire 501/ folder and now I have regained all that missing space, for which I am elated.
But can somebody tell me why the heck iTunes thinks it needs to copy those files?! I'm glad it wasn't iTunes that caused that particular instance of missing space, but I have nonetheless been deleting unnecessary copies of songs for all these past six weeks to regain some of that space bit by bit (or byte by byte, if you will). And I know that there are still extraneous copies for probably more than half of the remaining songs in my collection.
All for now...
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My itunes skips every song

Howdy All
Desperate for help
I have Windows 7 64 Bit - fully patched. I also have latest version of Itunes.
For the last 3-4 months, my itunes has not played music. But sometimes it does (intermittent).
If I double click a song, it instantly skips to the next, then the next then the next and so on and so forth until it has gone over all 8000 songs in my collection.
When Itunes does work, it plays every song without issue.
I have tried everything to fix it. I have uninstalled itunes and reinstalled at least a dozen times, I have done clean installs, removing all insatnces of the program. As a BSc (COMSCI) and IS Major, I know enough to know that there is something wrong.
Does anybody have ANY idea what is going on with my Itunes
I am desperate for a fix
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Cheers
Mick

Mick
Did you try looking for conflicts with MSConfig?
I assume your tracks play OK in another player such as Window Media Player?
On malware that was a good idea, did you also try the free scanner from Malwarebytes, that is very good.
Did you remove all the Apple/iTunes entries in the registry.
Did you you remove all the iTunes related programs listed in the iTunes uninstall instructions, including deleting any remaining folders.
In addition, there are there is a configuration file in a hidden folder:
Program Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\SC Info
The configuration file can cause problems for all users although I haven't heard of it causing skipping. It might be worth deleting it, but deauthorise you PC first as it holds authorisation data. The configuration file will be recreated when iTunes starts.
See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2363
If absolutely everything apple related is removed and the problem persists after a reinstall, it does suggest a software conflict or a problem with Windows.
Problems with Segoe fonts have caused issues but related to display problems rather than skipping tracks.
If you ever find a solution, it would be great to hear what it was, this is very puzzling.

HT1473 downloaded an album from itunes and every song is out of sink with its title, HELP

downloaded album from itunes and the songs dont match the title,help!!

Assuming you are in a region where you are allowed to redownload your past purchases, delete the current copies from your iTunes library, go to the iTunes Store home page, click the Purchased link from the Quick Links section in the right-hand column, then select Music and Not on this computer. You should find download links for your tracks there.
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tt2

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Since I went to iTunes 12 every song skips at least once

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ITunes copies some songs twice onto IPod for no apparent reason?

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Best way to cure this is to go into iTunes, highlight that artist and/or songs, right click on them and select "get info".
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Every song in itunes library appears twice. how do i delete the dups

in my itunes library every song shows up twice. how do I delete the duplicates?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1503
Resolution
Try disconnecting and reconnecting your device, then syncing again to solve this issue.
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Now the tracks from before I switched to iTunes 8 still behave like that. New "Unknown Album" tracks, though, all get lumped together and sorted with the earliest date. Further, it uses the earliest cover art, even if each of the tracks has its own art.
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Itunes copies every song double in Finder!

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