ITunes Duplicating all Songs

Everytime I rename a song in itunes it makes two copies of the song one that is renamed and one original. So far it completely duplicated my entire library so as opposed to having 3 gigs of music i have 6 gigs. Is there a simple way to fix this without having to see which specific songs are duplicated and delete each individually?
Thanks

Everytime I rename a song in itunes it
How are you renaming the songs?

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Try re downloading ...
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I just downloaded The Rolling Stones Hyde Park concert from ITunes. All songs play, except Street Fighting Man, which I am supposed to authorize on my computer, but after doing so, it still doesnt work. Why and what can I do.

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Probably corrupted on download. Delete from library and go to iTunes Store > purchased and redownload.
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Recently upgraded to iTunes 10.1.1.4 and all songs are now duplicated. Any idea why this happened and is there an easy way to get rid of the duplicates? When I opened iTunes after the upgrade, it acted as though it was a new installation-asking questions about finding song files.

Something went wrong with the upgrade. itunes should not have asked about finding files on an upgrade.
For duplicates in the itunes program, sort by Date Added. Figure out which group is valid - either the oldest or newest, and delete whichever group that isn't needed. You can highlight the first and then hold the shift key to highlight the last, so you can delete the group all at once.
For duplicate on your hard drive, use Windows Explorer and Date Created/Modified the same way.

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I bought an album from iTunes. All of the songs play except one. When I double click on it, a message comes up saying this computer is not authorized to play it, asking me if I want to authorize the computer. Yet when I log in with my ID, the response is that the computer is already authorized. Then it skips to the next song. I have updated iTunes through software update and am using 11.0.4 (4). I have tried to reboot the computer but the situation stays the same.
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If only one track on the album is throwing that message, that suggests the track is damaged.
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Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the item that is not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the item, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" link next to the item.

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Hello,
When I first got my Mac, I put about 75GB of music into the documents folder from my old computer, I then dragged it all into iTunes so I could sync with my iOS devices. However, I've just noticed that the music is stored in documents (where I put it) and in \music\iTunes
Is there any way of having just one copy of all the music? At the moment it's a complete waste of 75GB.
Thanks

Yes, you should be able to delete all 75 GB of songs from Documents without encountering any issues. When you drag the songs into iTunes, it copies the files into Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music so all your songs are in one place. You can then safely delete them from the original location.
But before you do that, make sure that is what will happen. Look through Music > iTunes > iTunes Media > Music and make sure all your songs are there. Open iTunes, right click a song, choose Get Info, click the Summary tab and note the location of the file. All your songs should be in Music/iTunes... rather than Documents.
If you find you have some in the Music > iTunes... folder and some in the Documents folder, you can choose File > Library > Organize Library, then check the option to "Consolidate files." Once that is finished, you can delete all songs that lie outside of the Music/iTunes folder.
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Ipod nano (6th gen), appears under devices in itunes and all songs play properly. Upon ejecting from PC, ipod says 0 songs but still 14gb/14.88 have been used up. What is the problem here?

Pretty much what I asked in the question. Plugged the ipod back into the PC and it still works fine under Devices in itunes and all the songs re-appear here again. Havent been syncing with any different computers

I requested that your post by moved to the iPod Nano forum. This is the iPod touch forum.

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I recently updates my iTunes and now all my songs are duplicated and my iPod on my iPhone does not work anymore. How do I fix this?

HI and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
To find duplicates.
Select an item below Library or Playlists then do one of the following.
Choose File>Show Duplicates
Or... Press the Shift key and choose File>Show Exact Duplicates.
Connect your iPod. In the iTunes window click File>Sync iPod
Regarding the iPhone issue, please post in the iPhone forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201
Carolyn
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Why has iTunes duplicated all my songs

This was an issue that was fixed years ago so why now has it returned with v12?
This was an issue that was fixed years ago so why now has it returned with v12?
This is rubbish! ---- A real pain even more so with still no decent duplicate find and bulk delete facility.
Come on guys. Even something as basic as MS access is capable of doing simple sorts like that must we, in this day and age still resort to sorting problems like this out with external scripts?
My music and audio book library is nearly 2tb I dare not point this new version at my video libraries! and to have to manually resort is just an unrealistic prospect.
No side bar; still no return of coverflow which for large libraries is a very good tool. Support for audio books is getting worse; Ability for handling large libraries is getting worse and streaming capabilities also getting worse.
iTunes has for a long time been a little bit clunky but this latest version is ridiculous. What should be a slick interface has turned into an amateurish attempt at covering up lazy coding by overpaid and underachieving software developers.
It's about time someone realised that some of us are serious audiophiles and not just playing with ipods playing too loudly in crowded trains!
Disgusted!!! Worse version of this software yet

Apple's official advice on duplicates is here: 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 such as lost ratings and playlist membership, or that sometimes the same file can be represented by multiple entries in the library and that deleting one and recycling the file will break the other.
In the Songs view 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.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
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I have a 160 gig iPod Classic that has over 14,000 songs on it and 200+ smart playlists (I leave about 400 meg free for any "new" CD I might get).
Yesterday morning, I added several additional smart playlists from iTunes and ejected my iPod. I waited until the screen said "OK to Disconnect" and took the iPod off of the USB charger/connector, but noticed that the screen didn't change. Soon a white line started appearing along the bottom from left to right so I figured it was updating it's database (similar to how iTunes does that sometimes after you exit). I waited and waited after the line was all the way to the right and, after about 20 minutes, rebooted the iPod. When things finally were back to what looked like normal, the iPod didn't do anything.
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Ok, after trying a couple of other things (without success), I finally deleted all of the playlists as a test and the iPod works again.
So... That means that there is a limit to the number of playlists you can have on an iPod!
Does anyone happen to know how many you can have? (I.e, what IS the limit?)

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