My iTunes Library is replicating songs and albums in the library - ghosting
I recently collated many iTunes libraries and manually deleted duplicate files. Now when I open iTunes I'm seeing two and sometimes three of the same albums and songs I know I deleted. When I look in my hard drive I see that there are no duplicates but in the library file the duplicates clone themselves.
Is there a way I can fix this issue without loosing my library file and consequently loose play lists and features I've programmed.
I second this problem. Sometimes the song will have the same title other times it will slap the name of the artist in front of the title so I can't just hit the find duplicates button I have to manually go through my whole library. Once I do delete them all I go back through my library a little latter and its started to do it again.
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Why is iTunes automatically changing edited song and album information?
Hi guys, I've seen this question asked several times but I haven't seen an answer or advice that specifically relates to the problems I've been having with my iTunes library of late.
I've got a pretty big collection of music on iTunes - almost 1000 albums - and I'm pretty anal about the way it's stored and managed and I regularly change the song and album information to suit my own "house style". All my music was stored on a Dell laptop and was fine - I had no problems with changing and editing the information. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and shifted all the music files from the old machine onto the new one (a lengthy and frustrating process) and since then, I've had a lot of hassle in terms of amending and organising my iTunes collection. A lot of the music I've purchased from the iTunes store has reverted back to its original state, no matter how many times I've changed it.
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Lana Del Rey's Born to Die (Deluxe Version). I've removed the "Deluxe Version" from the title but I quit iTunes or sync it with my iPod, it automatically adds it back. I've changed the information in the song info, I've even changed it in the sort info just to be sure, but it always changes back.
The same with the Anthems Electronic 80s compilation. I want to call it Ministry of Sound: Electronic 80s and remove it from Various Artists (by deleting the album artist from the information). But after iTunes is quit or its been synced, the same thing happens. It appears as two albums on my iPod - a handful of tracks appear under the old title while the bulk of them appear under the new one.
It's happening across loads of albums, all ones I've downloaded (the stuff ripped from CDs seems to be okay). I've done as much as I can in terms of the song info but no matter what I do, it just reverts back when the programme's quit or I sync my iPod. I don't know if it's anything to do with the fact they're in the Cloud or they've been imported from a Dell laptop or there's an underlying problem with iTunes (a couple of posts elsewhere on this forum suggest it might be the case) but it's really frustrating.
I apologise for the length of my post but I wanted to be as thorough as possible to outline the problem. If anyone's in a position to offer me any advice, I'd be hugely grateful!A handful of others have complained about this recently. Seems to happen to iTunes Store purchases only. Somehow they are connecting back to the Store and refreshing label information. There may be a solution but few seem to try experimenting with settings to see if something stops it.
2014 discussion about edited tags for Store purchases reverting to originals - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26077896 - edited tags are still present in the media file but revert to the originals in the iTunes library file. Workaround is to refresh tags so media file tags are re-read and used in library file.
Until then send feedback to Apple:
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I have an ipod with 1000 songs and I transfered them to a mp3 player, when checked my library for duplicates, all the songs appreared twice, now I am afraid to add more songs and sync my ipod.
Manually sync. This way, you will be making sure no duplicates will sync over to your iPod.
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iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1967
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
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HT5622 After installing iTunes Match I have lots most of my iTunes songs and albums help please
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I see where i can gift songs and albums i havent bought, how can i gift songs in my library i already bought? Specifically on the mobile itunes store.
Bust3dUp wrote:
I see where i can gift songs and albums i havent bought, how can i gift songs in my library i already bought? Specifically on the mobile itunes store.
Bust3d,
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