Music Duplicates

How do I safely eliminate music duplicates in I-Tunes without doing it one at a time?

Hopefully this post will give you some ideas.
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  • HT2905 The function to show music duplicates doesnt appear on my ITUNES version 11.0.2.26

    I have many music files duplicates and I want to delete these files to organize correctly my library. The ITunes Help tells about a function that doesnt appear in my version, which is "File>Display Exact Duplicates".
    And, further more, are there other options to do that? For instance, may I reload an entire library, and configure Itunes to use only that new one library?
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    Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
    Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
    Note with iTunes 11 an "empty" library may show all your purchases with cloud icons that allow them to be streamed or downloaded from Apple's servers.
    See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
    When you get it all working make a backup!
    If, for some inexplicable reason, the media has been removed from your computer see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
    tt2

  • Non-working music duplicates

    I just purchased music from itunes and put it on my ipod touch.  In my music in my library it is displaying duplicates of the songs I purchased but one of the duplicates doesn't work.  I tried erasing it but it won't let me erase, and it isn't even showing the duplicates in my itunes on my laptop when the ipod is plugged in. How do I get rid of them?!

    An out of warranty replacement from Apple is $229 if you didn't buy AppleCare+.

  • Delete multiple itunes music duplicates

    my itunes music library has duplicates of almost every song. how can I clean this up in mass? one at a time is not an option 

    It depends upon your level of trust in automatically getting rid of duplicates.  You can have duplicates that are not duplicates, which is when going through them one by one, looking at file and track details, is better.  Automatic deleting can be fatal to your collection if your duplicates in fact point to the same file.  Deleting one will get rid of the file and after you finish deleting the files your "originals" will show up with broken links.  I also have a duplicate that is the artist having two tracks on the same album with an identical name, but they definitely are not the same (one is acoustic, the other heavy rock).  iTunes tells me they are duplicates so if I blindly get rid of duplicates I will get rid of one of those tracks.
    If this happened recently thrugh some action you can try viewing exact duplicates, sorting by date added, and delete every file added after a certain date.  There's also various commercial and shareware duplicate finders which you can find through a web search.
    You must be doing something wrong with iTunes to be generating that number of duplicates.  I generate only one or two duplicates per year despite lots of file creation and deletion.

  • Can't purchase music - duplicate file name specified

    Recently I started having a problem with iTunes.  When I open iTunes I get an error message "Duplicate file name specified".  I can close the message window and iTunes seems to function normally for most activities, however, if I try to buy a song from the iTunes store, I get the following message:
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    Start here:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3430

  • Why does my music duplicate

    I've spent way too much time deleting duplicate songs, why does this seem to happen after time?

    There is probably something wrong with your workflow when you add content to the library.
    Repeatedly importing the same set of folders that are outside the iTunes Media folder with the option to Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library enabled is one way of creating duplicates.
    I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See thisthread for background.
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  • Deleting duplicate files in the I tunes folder

    How do you remove duplicate file from the itunes folder if you need to restore itunes library?

    There are some programmes for XP to find duplicate files. I wanted to delete music duplicate file  I used the programme delete duplicate files for such aim. It helped me. This program is not only for the music, but for all files. And now it is more free place on my PC

  • To delete duplicates

    why does most my music duplicate and is there an easy way to delete duplicates without have to click on each individual song

    thanks, I have even deleted everthing out of my itunes and then reimported but it continues to throw in duplicates, I have several of the same song artist on differnt albums, I don't class these as duplicates but it is frustrating to see all the other duplicates

  • URENT ITUNES QUESTION

    hi, i have itunes latest version for pc.. whenever i "add folder to libary" the music duplicates i have over 500 songs so its a pain to remove the duplicate songs. but how can i change it so that when i "add file to folder" all the new songs in that folder will appear in i tunes... It used to do this ....... hurry

    Well, whenever I add songs that are already in iTunes, I get duplicates, too.
    Just add the new songs, not the whole folder.

  • How do I prevent

    How do I prevent & delete large music duplicates from my iTunes library, highlighting one song, at a time and deleting, takes forever, there got to be a faster way to do that.

    OGELTHORPE,
    Thank you for the suggestion. I tried resetting the NVRAM, but the issue persists. I'll keep a close watch on what I'm doing when it happens to see if I can pinpoint the cause.
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  • Lumia 820 storage drain

    i have 820 and free space on phone keeps disappearing, and it says that my settings app "weight" 1.5GB and increasing. My friend has exactly the same 820,and his setting app is only 98MB (adding screenshots). so i want to know what the hell is happening with this phone? and p.s. yesterday phone had 500mb free space, & i did update extras+info's app (+-40mb) and now i have 5 to 80mb free space, it even doesnt show the real space sometimes... the phone also wants more free space for software update (470) but how the hell should i get such numbers when the phone is almost empty but still shows that he's full... and the second one of the popular bug's im countering is music duplicates, almost all of the songs has duplicate and not only one,some of songs which has not duplicate are even not working at all... and after some time they just dissapears... oh yeah,not only music duplicates, photos too(not from camera roll)... i think those phones are not completed or should i say the OS is not completed as half of microsoft products....
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    Hi ugura, 
    Thank you for all the information you provided. It's a big help to other users here in the forum. 
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  • Some of my songs are listed twice on my iPod itself.  However, when I plug the iPod into my computer, the songs don't show up twice in iTunes when I click on device/music. How do I get rid of the duplicate songs on my iPod?

    Some of my songs are listed twice on my iPod itself.  However, when I plug the iPod into my computer, the songs don't show up twice in iTunes when I click on device/music. How do I get rid of the duplicate songs on my iPod?

    that is odd! that should not be happening.
    Are you syncing your songs right off of itunes itself? because it should be syncing over to the ipod however it is listed in itunes.

  • Is there a way to put music (mp3) from my PC onto my iPhone (5c) without having to duplicate that music by adding it to the iTunes Library?

    Greetings all, I am a brand new iPhone owner (my first smartphone in fact) and am very sad that I don't love my new device as much as I was beginning to.  I've come into the Apple family with open eyes and heart, but I am heartbroken and mortified and what I've been learning this morning.  I just spent five hours (no exaggeration) reading forums, downloading iTunes (which I don't really think I want, I am used to WMP and much more accustomed to it), downloading and installing an update, learning that certain options which were recommended are now gone unless you use secret commands (want to Add Folder to Library?  Well, too bad!  Unless you know the secret Ctrl-B handshake.  Hope you didn't just spend tons of time adding items file by file before you learned that (by scouring the obscure forums for that information, since it's not common knowledge or readily accessible in iTunes now)!).  Apologies for the sarcastic tone, still very frustrated with the whole process.  I've seen support messages directing people to support pages with QuickTime videos;  QuickTime doesn't install easily or quickly or work properly on my PC (perhaps I need to work with it more, buuuut...), it's all just seeming so....proprietary. 
    Is it really the way this works that I have to duplicate all of the music that is currently on my hard drive not just once but twice, such that I need to have it 1) on my hard drive in my music folder where it has always been (so that I can play it how I am used to, using WMP), 2) copied to my iTunes Library and then 3) "Synced" (whatever this really means...still learning obviously) / copied onto my iPhone?  Thus taking up twice the space on my hard drive that it needs to?
    There's really no way to simply have the phone take it from my hard drive?  Apple seriously needs it to not only be existent on my pc, but duplicated into the iTunes Library (which is really just another folder, right?) in order to allow it to be put onto my iPhone?
    Please please please tell me I am misunderstanding how this works.  I really genuinely do want to love my iPhone and get accustomed to how it and the software it needs works, but this has been frankly a nightmare and has had me wishing for brief moments that I had gone with something more PC friendly.  Please just tell me that it gets better, that you can have a PC that you use, and have an iPhone that you use and marry the two happily once you get used to the way to do that. 

    HydroThunder wrote:
    Greetings all, I am a brand new iPhone owner (my first smartphone in fact) and am very sad that I don't love my new device as much as I was beginning to.  I've come into the Apple family with open eyes and heart, but I am heartbroken and mortified and what I've been learning this morning.  I just spent five hours (no exaggeration) reading forums, downloading iTunes (which I don't really think I want, I am used to WMP and much more accustomed to it), downloading and installing an update, learning that certain options which were recommended are now gone unless you use secret commands (want to Add Folder to Library?  Well, too bad!  Unless you know the secret Ctrl-B handshake.  Hope you didn't just spend tons of time adding items file by file before you learned that (by scouring the obscure forums for that information, since it's not common knowledge or readily accessible in iTunes now)!).  Apologies for the sarcastic tone, still very frustrated with the whole process.  I've seen support messages directing people to support pages with QuickTime videos;  QuickTime doesn't install easily or quickly or work properly on my PC (perhaps I need to work with it more, buuuut...), it's all just seeming so....proprietary. 
    Is it really the way this works that I have to duplicate all of the music that is currently on my hard drive not just once but twice, such that I need to have it 1) on my hard drive in my music folder where it has always been (so that I can play it how I am used to, using WMP), 2) copied to my iTunes Library and then 3) "Synced" (whatever this really means...still learning obviously) / copied onto my iPhone?  Thus taking up twice the space on my hard drive that it needs to?
    There's really no way to simply have the phone take it from my hard drive?  Apple seriously needs it to not only be existent on my pc, but duplicated into the iTunes Library (which is really just another folder, right?) in order to allow it to be put onto my iPhone?
    Please please please tell me I am misunderstanding how this works.
    Okay.
    You are misunderstanding how this works.
    When you add songs to your iTunes Library, all you are in fact doing is telling iTunes where (on your computer) to find the music. iTunes does not create additional versions of your music (see * below). iTunes is a database (or catalogue) - it simply lists your music and knows where it is so that it can copy it to your iPod.
    Synced - synchronise... to make as one, to make the same as each other. Well, that's what my dictionary tells me anyway. To make iTunes and the iPhone the same, to have the same music etc. on or in each. (Subject to your preferences.)
    HydroThunder wrote:
    I really genuinely do want to love my iPhone and get accustomed to how it and the software it needs works, but this has been frankly a nightmare and has had me wishing for brief moments that I had gone with something more PC friendly.  Please just tell me that it gets better, that you can have a PC that you use, and have an iPhone that you use and marry the two happily once you get used to the way to do that.
    Okay, I'l tell you that too.
    It gets better. You can have a PC that you use, and have an iPhone that you use - and marry the two together blah blah blah.
    Now that you have iTunes installed, at least you've got that far, although I can't quite imagine how it managed to take five hours. (You would have all these same issues if you were moving from iPhone to any non-Apple product.)
    Secret menus, (CTRL+B etc.) - yes, there have been some very odd moves with all this "hiding menus" nonsense. But with the help of useful contibutors to these discussions, you will find iTunes easy. There are however, so many ways to configure iTunes, that everyone will tell you that everyone else's method is wrong.
    So let's start with basics:
    Once iTunes is set the way you want to view it, all you will need to do is add music to your iTunes Library, either by;
    putting a CD into your computer's CD drive, and telling iTunes to import the CD. iTunes will make a digital copy, put it in a folder (in the iTunes Media folder) and list the album in your iTunes
    buying music from the iTunes Store. The store will download the music to your Library.
    Buying music from other sources. For example Amazon. Here in the UK, Amazon have a downloader which will download any purchases, place them in an Amazon folder and add them to your iTunes Library
    Add other digital files by using the Add Folder to Library. (I can make sure you can easily find that, if you wish.)
    Then - you can add songs to Playlists - if you wish. You do not have to add music to Playlists. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
    Then - connect your iPhone to the computer, and let iTunes perform a Sync.
    Your first ever Sync will need a little bit of configuration. A Sync will copy the new songs to your iPhone. It will also transfer back to your iTunes Library:
    any songs purchased, on the iPhone, directly from the iTunes Store.
    any apps purchased, on the iPhone, from the iTunes Store.
    Play Counts. The number of times a song has been played, on the iPhone, since the last Sync.
    Last Played date and time. You won't believe how useful this feature can be.
    HydroThunder wrote:
    There's really no way to simply have the phone take it from my hard drive?
    That is precisely what iTunes is for - it's exactly what it does and how is does it. By the way, also don't let anyone tell you that you should use Manual Management to anage your iPhone. No one with any sense would use Manual Management. Why do housework, when iTunes can do it for you?
    * There is one tiny issue in all this. If you leave your music where it is now, it may make it slightly harder for you to transfer all your music to another computer anytime in the future because it will be in various different palces on your current computer. There is a setting in iTunes to "copy files to the iTunes Media folder when adding to library", which will duplicate songs, but that's so that you can store all your music in one parent folder for easy transfer to another computer. Your choice. If you take it, once it's done, you could then delete the older copies in the other storage locations.
    Of course, if you transfer all your media, files, documents to the new compurer, it shouldn't be any hassle really.
    As for WMP. While you are used to it, now that you have an iPhone, why not try playing music in iTunes? It's really not that bad.
    So - you tell me what point you have reached and what other information you need to help you with iTunes, what views you want in your iTunes Library. There are lots of ways to vieww your Library! You only need to tell us how you like to look at things, by albums with artwork, by a sonsg list but with the option of looking at albums, or Last played. On and On it goes!
    I may be a bit biased in my choice of views, but I can still help you get the best out of iTunes. It really is a fantastic piece of software, despite the little annoying things Apple put into it.

  • How do you delete duplicate songs in your iTunes Music Library?

    I just replaced a new hard drive and had to re-install iTunes and it imported my My Music from my external which had the iTunes Library saved in that as well, but now I have like 4 copies of each song!!!
    How can I delete the duplicates so I have one of each song?
    Thanks!

    Thank  you for the response , but I know you can do that -  I have thousands of SONGS and that would be tedious and take me forever.
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