Yep a Duplicate Tracks Question,  Again!

I had a problem with the file structure on my Power Mac becoming unstable and took the machine in for repair. Coincidentally I asked for a WD bigger drive I fitted sometime ago to be the boot drive. As the reason for the disintegrating file structure couldn't be found the old drive is physically disconnected but the data files etc are on the new drive. I was told to open iTunes and drag Users/Me/Library/iTunes/ etc into the open app to rebuild etc. The 'fresh' version of iTunes opened empty and I followed instructions. And ended up with approx 4000 duplicate tracks. I've dragged the whole new library to trash and emptied trash and redone but same again. I can't see any duplicate tracks in finder looking in users/me/music/itunes All the band names and individual tracks are in there and if I look at an individual track the original rip date or purchase date is shown. No double listing of names though.
I've started to go through Duplicate View in iTunes but haven't even made it out of the A's yet and it takes ages. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
I've copied all to an external drive so am prepared to delete all info and start again if there is a surefire way to do that. If that is the best way.
Many thanks
PS - I don't even want to think what heartache I'm going to get when I try iPhoto.
Steve
Power Mac Dual 1.8GHz G5, 2gb   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   iPod 30g video, Shuffle, Epson Stylus Photo R800

OK never mind, thanks anyway.

Similar Messages

  • ITunes creates duplicate tracks on its own

    Hello everyone,
    I noticed recently that iTunes is creating duplicate tracks on its own. The new “tracks” all reference to the same file. Sometimes there are up to 4 duplicates (see screenshot). As you can see on the far right of the image, it seems that every time I ran iTunes the tracks are added.
    I did not change anything recently, but noticed that iTunes also updates my Cover Art, even though I explicitly unchecked the checkbox the settings…might be connected to my issue.
    Any advice is much appreciated!
    regards
    modtastic

    Is the media folder stored on an external drive? If you start iTunes with an external disconnected it will "notice" and mark all tracks as missing. If you then add media by scanning folders it won't notice that it is already connected to the files and will add them again. Next time you start iTunes you can have two tracks linked to the same physical file.
    How do you normally add media to the library?
    To check your library for duplicates use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. Keep holding down shift until you have clicked on the text Show Exact Duplicates or it may still use the loser definition. If you don't see a menu bar press Ctrl+B to reveal it or Alt to show it temporarily.
    If you find that you have true duplicates you need to manually select all but one of each group to remove, or use my DeDuper script if you don't want to do it by hand. The script attempts to take account of different types of duplicates which need to be handled differently, merges playcounts and preserves playlist membership. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping. See this thread for background.
    iTunes doesn't generally do much in the way of background media updates, but it may reveal those enacted by something else, such as Windows Media Player.
    tt2

  • I Have duplicate tracks since I renamed Album names

    My Library contains track that I have ripped from my CD's and tracks which I have purchased from iTunes over the years and reciently after updating to iTunes 11 with ICloud I noticed that I have duplicate tracks on many of the iTunes purchased tracks, I am fairly sure this is happening because I renamed several artist names after the purchase from iTunes. I do this because If I don't the album would not be grouped with others from the same artist. for example Grand Funk & Grand Funk Railroad. I would chose one and edit others to match so all grand funk would display together. When ICloud checks my library I believe it sends me the tracks again thinking they are gone but they are not. so I end up with dupes thet take space and time and bandwidth and confusion. There are other similar group names and this is becoming a bother. Is there any solution? What about disabling iCloud? But if I do that I lose the benefits of iCloud
    Thanks
    Fredy

    Is thera simple rule of knowing which of these should be kept?
    I'd first of all look for the audio quality of the files - sample rate, bitrate and keep the files with the highest quality. Then look at the tags you added; keep the files where you have set comments and grouping tags. And if you still have more than one file to keep, keep the ones with a simple cloud, that have been successfully uploaded, not the crossed out inelligible files or duplicate files.

  • Duplicate track entries

    Is there a fix which could cross reference tracks in my iTunes database. I currently have over 3500 duplicates. What I would like best is to , for example, cross reference tracks on a greatest hits CD to that of the original album tracks if I already own them, linking them both to one file. I would only then need to import the tracks I don't already have stored. I could then either play the full original cd or the full greatest hits cd. I am reluctant to delete duplicate tracks as I like listening to the full cds as purchased and not have partial listings that would happen should I delete duplicate songs. I am surprised Apple hasn't already addressed this issue.
    iMac (Intel)   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   3 iPods

    I suppose it could, but again the maintenance by the user would be high.
    For instance if you decide to delete a track or album that owns the prime version of the tracks shared by other albums what happens? How does the track transfer prime ownership to the other Album.
    If you add a new album for instance one containing many artists, how long would it take a user to cross reference every track to one's that already might exist in other Albums, and which one gets deleted?
    In effect what you are asking for is Playlists that hold the tracks for virtual albums, but that don't exist as actual playlists but Albums themselves.
    It would be very confusing and I suspect people would lose even more tracks than they do now by accidental deletions.
    Just live with the duplicates, knowing that you have full and complete recordings as they were made and ripped from the CD's.
    3000 duplicate tracks only take up about 12GB.
    Ian

  • Someone please settle this problem once and for all! (Duplicate Tracks)

    I had an iPod about two years ago and ended up getting a different mp3 player. I now have a new 5G iPod and am having the same issue I had 2 years ago for the short time I had my old iPod. Duplicate tracks showing up in my iPod's library. I searched through these forums and found a lot of people having these problems, but none of the suggestions I read in the other threads seemed to do anything.
    This seems to be an underlying problem for a lot of people and I don't understand why Apple would make their players this ********. I've had several other mp3 players in the last 2 years and you put in an artists' name and all the songs appear together under one name and are simply organized by Album, genre, year, etc... but, I loaded all my songs onto the iPod and even though tracks all contain the same artist name I get multiple listings for the same artist.
    For instance, if I have several albums all of their filenames contain the artists' name, followed by a dash and then the name of the song. The artist name in the iTunes tag all match exactly as well. So why in the **** do names show up multiple times? I had this problem two years ago and it was never resolved, and I checked all over the boards and just couldn't come to a solution. I'll tell you one thing though, I can't believe it's this hard to get all of one artist under one listing on the player. Kinda dumb.
    Please forgive me if this topic has been discussed to death. I just couldn't get anything useful out of any previous topics I looked at.

    Alright I just checked my tracks and settings and what not and added some more music now I get a bunch of extra multiple listings. This is so ********. lol! Here is a screenshot of my iPod that I just took. Now this is just dumb because there aren't many ways that you can mess up the spelling in the name 2Pac. It's a 2, a capital P, a lowercase a, and c.
    http://home.comcast.net/~johnnybukkake/iPod_Screenshot.jpg
    The first listing gives me almost all his albums just fine. Then for the second listing I get another one of his full albums. And for the last three listings I get a single song in each of them. I mean really, Apple... How does a flaw this stupid rear it's ugly head into so many people's players?!

  • How do you delete duplicate tracks off your playlist?!

    How do you delete duplicate tracks off your playlist - everytime I connect my hard-drive it adds another of every single track - argh!!!!
    I remember there being a 'delete duplicate tracks' option on a much older version of itunes - is this still available and if not if you opt for the 'consolidate library' option will this automatically save to you computer as I have too much music for my laptops memory capacity! On top of that how can I stop this issue from contantly re-occuring everytime I connect my hard-drive?! Apologies if im being thick here.... xX*laura*Xx

    You are doing something wrong, iTunes doesn't add tracks to the library unless you ask it to, so there is a problem somewhere in your workflow which is creating the duplicates. For example, having iTunes set up to "Copy files to the iTunes Media folder when adding to library" and then repeatedly adding in a folder from an external drive would do it.
    Once you've worked out how to stop creating new duplicates you can look at the issue of deduping what you already have. See this recent post for some thoughts and a script that may prove useful.
    tt2

  • How can I turn off the sound from the original midi  or audio tracks when I turned on the duplicate tracks for editing ?

    How can I turn off the sound from the original midi or audio tracks when I edit or listen to the duplicate tracks in Logic Pro 9 ?
    I'm using iMac desktop with Mac OS X Version 10.7.3. Pls advise.

    Dan,
    It sounds like one of your preferences has changed.
    Go to preferences > audio > general, and make sure "track mute/solo" is set to "CPU saving (slow response)". It is probably set to "Fast " at the moment.
    This setting (fast) basically causes immediate muting from the channel strip while your song is in play. This is because the audio is still being read from the hard drive, but the channel strip is simply muted.... like a hardware mixer. When set to "CPU saving", the audio from that track, when muted, is actually stopped from streaming from the hard drive, but there is a couple second delay before the audio is actually muted.
    One would think that the fast setting is generally preferable, except when you need to do what you are doing. The only way to keep duplicate copies of channel strips acting independent of one another is to leave this setting on the "CPU saving" setting.
    Hope that helps

  • Is there an easy way to eliminate duplicate tracks from iTunes on a mac?

    All of a sudden I have over 6,500 duplicate tracks in my iTunes.  Not entire albums but many tracks from an album are duplicated.  Is there an easy way to get rid of these tracks or do I have to do this one by one?  Also why would this be happening? I have "Keep iTunes Media Organized" checked as well as "Copy files to iTunes when adding to library".

    It is hard to say why.  iTunes is unlikely to do this all its own and there is probably something you did like add a folder that is not part of the current media collection thinking it needed adding, but it had already been added in the past.
    There is no simple, universal panacea for duplicates.  You can try some of the suggestions below.
    How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
    http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)
    Posts by turingtest2 about different types of duplicates and techniques- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555601 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/16042406 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows)
    Frankly, I would do it manually.  As you can see from turingtest2's post, some duplicates are not really duplicates and I would rather do it manually than discover that a script had removed my only copy of a file (yes, I have backups but I may not notice for a year or so a file is no longer there, by which time I would have overwritten the backup because I do not have drive space for storing a year's worth of weeky iTunes backups tens of GB in size).
    I would also review how you add media to iTunes.  It should not be producing all that many duplicates.

  • How to remove duplicate tracks on my Library?

    How do I quickly delete duplicate tracks in itune library?
    I have many duplicate tracks because I uploaded 5 cds twice.
    I upload cds to my itune library.
    I then made changes to the song names and added coverflow.
    So how do I back up these albums to my hard drive or external drive so if I loose it or want to upload these albums to another computer?
    thank you for your help...

    Just go to view > show duplicates and delete accordingly. As for backing stuff up, read this:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392

  • I can not log in to the account from the iTunes Store's why I lost my security question! I want to modify the security question again I can not

    I can not log in to the account from the iTunes Store's why I lost my security question! I want to modify the security question again I can not

    BLANK Cloud Screen http://forums.adobe.com/message/5484303
    -and http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/blank-white-screen-ccp.html

  • Duplicate tracks!!!  What's up with this?

    I have somehow ended up with a situation with an iTunes library that has numerous duplicate tracks. Don't ask me to explain how this happened; I don't know. How can I get rid of the duplicate tracks?

    In iTunes, you can click View > Show Duplicates. This shows you the songs that are duplicated, however, it shows you all copies of those songs, so be careful not to tell it to show duplicates and then delete everything you see, because that will delete all copies of those songs. In short, through iTunes, it must be done manually.
    I've seen applications/utilities online that claim to help sort this out, but I've never tried to use them so I can't speak to their reliability.
    CG

  • TS1424 Who do I contact in regards to a faulty album download? Specifically, a duplicate track and a missing one that is available as "album only"

    Who do I contact in regards to a faulty album download? Specifically, a duplicate track and a missing one that is available as "album only"

    Depending upon what country that you are in you might be able to try 'redownloading' it via the Purchased link under Quick Links on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page on your computer's iTunes. If you aren't in a country where you can re-download music then try the 'report a problem' link from your purchase history : log into your account on your computer's iTunes via Store > View My Account and you should then see a Purchase History section with a 'see all' link to the right of it ; click on that and you should see a list of your purchases ; find that album and use the 'Report a Problem' link.

  • Duplicate Tracks - Time Machine?

    I keep getting duplicate track listings and even though I delete them they seem to be continuing to appear. It's not consistent though - some tracks have MANY dupes (7 or more sometimes!), some none, and others just a few.
    Is it possible that Time Machine is making them or is it something else? I have a new Nano, the last model Nano, an old model Shuffle, and a Gen 2 iPod Classic 20GB model. Is it the many iPods, Time Machine, or something else? It seems like I can never quite rid myself of iTunes dupes!

    Why not just use TM to back up to 2 external drives. TM will alternate between the two when it backs up.
    Alternately, you could have a 2 back up strategy like others have using SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. Both are excellent 3rd party apps to clone your internal drive(s) and both have schedulers.

  • Duplicate Tracks Listed That Are NOT Really Duplicates!

    My iTunes library suddenly has many duplicate tracks listed for SOME (not all) CD's I imported into iTunes, and I'm not sure why! The CD's that have duplicate tracks listed are split into individual songs. In other words, all the tracks are not listed together with one picture of the album art, but are split into individual tracks, with a duplicate picture of the album art showing for each track (as if each track was an individual CD)! When there are CD's with duplicates showing, there is always two track #1's, two track #2's, two track #3's, etc. If I click on the FIRST track #1 listed, I get the error message that iTunes cannot locate the file, and it asks me if I'd like to locate it. The non-functioning track is ALWAYS the first one listed (in other words, the first track #1 listed, the first track #2 listed, etc). This happened after I moved my iTunes library over to my external hard-drive, and I think it may have something to do with the fact that there may be some extra folders/files in my iTunes folder on my external hard-drive that don't belong there! The folder where I have iTunes save my music to is "G:\iTunes\iTunes Music", and inside my "G:\iTunes" folder are the following folders/files:
    Album Artwork (folder)
    iTunes Music (folder)
    iTunes Library.itl (file)
    iTunes Library.xml (file)
    iTunes Library Extras.itdb (file)
    iTunes Library Genius.itdb (file)
    iTunes Music Library.xml (file)
    Sentinel (file - no extension)
    Is this correct? Does anybody know if I have an extra library file that's "confusing" iTunes? I am going through my library and manually deleting all the duplicates, but I have over 11,000 songs in my library (all recorded off of my over 1,000 CD collection!) and this is, as you can imagine, rather time-consuming!
    Any help/suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!
    Thank you!
    Dennis

    I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this  thread for background.
    tt2

  • Duplicate tracks on ipod

    why is the show duplicate tracks unusable (in gray) when i am clicked on my ipod library in itunes?
    i want to be able to see my duplicate tracks in my ipod library only - not my whole itunes library. is this possible?
    ipod   Mac OS X (10.4.2)  

    I don't believe it is possible (okay, now someone prove me wrong) to load the same song file with no differences, into the iPod twice.
    I specifically wrote "song file" because you could have the same song as two different files such as if you imported the same CD twice. You could also have the same song by the same group from two differnt albums.
    I just tried to drag a song to the iPod which is already loaded. Nothing happened.

Maybe you are looking for