Why did my purchased music just double?!?

All of my purchased albums doubled overnight. Half of them have the Icloud icon after them prompting me to "Download to Icloud". Now if I try and play an album, each song plays twice.

Hi Doug
In some ways, the Purchased Music playlist is like a regular playlist. Sometimes when moving songs from one playlist to another, or dragging a CD icon or a playlist icon, or even the library icon itself, they accidentally get dropped on the Purchased Music icon or into its window. So that's why sometimes it contains songs that aren't puchased, ie when other songs are manually copied to it, usually accidentally.
If there are songs in that list that aren't purchased, you can simply select them and press the delete button. This will delete them from that playlist but not from the Library.
Your other situation is a bit less clear. You say the Purchased Music playlist contains tracks that are not in your main library? That can't be. The library is the source of all music. If you delete a track from the library it will automatically be delete from all playlists it is in as well. When songs are dragged from the library to a playlist, the actual song file is not copied, rather just a link to the song file is added to the playlist.
Perhaps what's going on is that your Purchased Music playlist looks like it contains more songs, but what's really going on is that there are duplicates in that playlist. This might have happenned if you accidentally dragged your library icon into your Purchased Music playlist, it would have copied all the songs from the library, including all your purcahsed music, thus making duplicates in that playlist.
Does that help explain some of what's going on?
Sara.

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