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Thread ID: 83651	2007-10-08 09:40:00	Unexplained duplication of music tracks whilst backing up itunes	Rowan Pollock (12901)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
599373	2007-10-08 09:40:00	I loaded around 7,000 songs on to my work iMac about 3 months ago. For some reason some of the songs were duplicated twice and i had to manually delete them. Yesterday I copied my iTunes onto my external hard drive and then downloaded them onto my new home iMac. I ended up with around 25,000 songs!!! Some had been duplicated as many as 4 times, some 3 times, others twice, and some not duplicated at all. Does anyone know what I may have done to cause this, and is there a way to delete the duplicates on mass without having to delete them one at a time???	Rowan Pollock (12901)
599374	2007-10-08 09:42:00	This wouldn't have happened if you weren't using an iPod or a mac. Consider this a lesson for you.	roddy_boy (4115)
599375	2007-10-08 09:57:00	I loaded around 7,000 songs on to my work iMac about 3 months ago. For some reason some of the songs were duplicated twice and i had to manually delete them. Yesterday I copied my iTunes onto my external hard drive and then downloaded them onto my new home iMac. I ended up with around 25,000 songs!!! Some had been duplicated as many as 4 times, some 3 times, others twice, and some not duplicated at all. Does anyone know what I may have done to cause this, and is there a way to delete the duplicates on mass without having to delete them one at a time??? Yes in iTunes Top tool bar choose> View>Show duplicates works on BOTH PC or Mac	winmacguy (3367)
599376	2007-10-08 10:40:00	This wouldn't have happened if you weren't using an iPod or a mac. Consider this a lesson for you. Amen, seconded and thirded. BTW, you can just go to View and choose to see all duplicates.	beeswax34 (63)
599377	2007-10-08 11:16:00	Thanks guys! Down to 12,000! Even though many of the duplicates have gone after going to View, choosing, and deleting them; there are still quite a few duplicates remaining	Rowan Pollock (12901)
599378	2007-10-08 15:42:00	Don't know if this is applicable . . . but WMP will do the same thing . But it's really the fault of the user most of the time . When you rip a file, it may get a primary association with whatever player you use, and then when you convert the file to a format that your iPod-thing can use, it'll make a new copy for it's version too . Sometimes these re-associations are invisible and you don't know that it's happening, but the file is re-spooled and converted and the trailings are left behind after the conversion and then your player will grab them all over again . . . resulting in multiple copies of the same file . This is doubly so if you have multiple harddrives, as the URL or address of the file will vary by the drive letter and your player regards it as a totally new file to grab . So, a song on "C" if it also gets sent to "F" or whatever, will APPEAR as a different file and will be committed to the player's library again and again with any/every minor change . I find that when I use Audacity and create files in multiple rates, that they are all subject to getting associated with my v10 player . . so I have to be careful and not allow WMP to look in the areas where I am spooling files and/or creating and formatting them to play in my Sansa or my Clié . Add Ogg and wma and MP3 and other formats and it gets very confusing .	SurferJoe46 (51)
599379	2007-10-08 17:26:00	Don't know if this is applicable . . . but WMP will do the same thing . But it's really the fault of the user most of the time . Amen to that SJ :)	winmacguy (3367)
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