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I plugged my wheezy old 64gb ipod touch into my laptop today . when I viewed my music library every track was duplicated int he same folder for instance when you view the contents there would be 2 x track one and so on through the entire folder . this is the case for every folder in my music library , I do not know what has happened but is there an easier way to delete the files other than the individual delete duplicate songs method / There are now 11542 files !!

Many thanks to those who take the time to respond to this topic

John

Do the duplicates show in the library or only on the hard drive? If they are only on the drive then you would need to scan the media folder adding everything to the library before the following method can be used to clean up.

Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to 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.

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.

tt2

Thanks for the quick reply . I shall try to explain more . When you view the folder in Itunes and click o the album artwork to see the track listing for that particular album there is two of every track in the folder ,

1. blah

1. blah

2. etc

2. etc

and so on through all of the album and every album in itunes

I tried using TuneUp to find duplicates but it only found duplicate songs in different folders and not the duplicate tracks in every folder

Thanks for the advice tt2

To be clear the question I'm asking is do you see duplicates in iTunes:

Or Windows Explorer:

Or both?

As long as you see them in iTunes (which is what I think you're saying) then my script should be able to help you clear up.

tt2

Hi tt2

My duplicated tracks are exactly like the first image you have posted and not window explorer version ! I have limited tech knowho so please be gentle !!

Start here: Re: how to delete duplicated songs all at one time?

Feel free to ask questions.

tt2

Actually if the tracks are definitely not duplicated in Windows Explorer then perhaps reverting to a previous iTunes library as described in Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash would be easier.

tt2

My tracks are duplicated in Windows Explorer and not in iTunes.  They are duplicated on my iPad when synced.  .

Any ideas?  Deleting them is getting old.

Thanks!

I think this happened when I consolidated an already consolidated library.  I must have done it 3 times because each track is listed 4 times. 

nomt2hi wrote:

 

My tracks are duplicated in Windows Explorer and not in iTunes.  They are duplicated on my iPad when synced.  .

 

Any ideas?  Deleting them is getting old.

 

Thanks!

Add the contents of the media folder into the library. Dedupe as shown above.

Generally if syncing doesn't work as expected take the following steps:

1. Backup device.
2. Restore as a new device.
3. Restore the backup made earlier.

This assumes all content on the device is in your library. If that isn't the case see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.

tt2

Hi TT2,

When I try your script, iTunes asks me with every song whether I want to maintain it in the cloud (I have 12.1). This makes it still a manual process. How do I avoid that?

CDIII

Hmm, that's a new one.

Assuming these are showing with the cloud symbol then I probably need to revisit the code. I thought I'd made the script ignore those. Edit > Preferences > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases > Off should fix it at your end. Also turn off iTunes Match if you have that.

If that isn't the issue have you managed to import duplicate copies of your purchases? I may need to investigate further and attempt to replicate your set up.

tt2

Wait - changing that setting seems to have fixed it. Thank you!

You're welcome.

tt2

Thanks for the info.  I got rolling and was able to dedupe one album.  Two questions: 

1) As the album was being deduped it asked me for each multiple if I wanted to delete it.  Is there a way to avoid this? 

2) When I look in my iTunes folder on my external hard drive I still see multiple duplicates of the the track I deduped.  How do I get rid of those?

Thank you! 

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