The only difference is in File Explorer, and I'm the kind of person who wants that to be correct too. The duplicate folders have the same name - the artist's - so the file info looks the same in Song Info between that song and the others on the album. You'd never know the difference in ITunes - the album holds all the songs in order, and I can find nothing different about that 12th song in the Song Info window. ITunes created a duplicate file folder for that artist to hold one song file from the new album, the 12th of the 13 songs on the new album. Any advice is appreciated.Īrtist folder duplicated to hold single song from artist's album I bought a new album at Amazon from an artist currently in my ITunes and imported it into ITunes. Now I have a new PC, and in adding the music library to it, once again I suddenly have the duplicates problem again. But, I cleaned all that up at the time by deleting and re-associating to the correct song files. After selecting an old library, I think syncing to iCloud was turned on, and it downloaded duplicates of everything, naming the dupes with the "1" extension. I think this may have been caused by an attempt a couple of years ago to revert to an old music library in iTunes when there was some problem I can't recall.
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I can't manually re-associate 14,000 songs, so I'm hoping someone has some idea for how to mass re-associate iTunes to the correct songs so I can then delete the duplicates named "1". I can delete the version with "1" from the album's folder, click to play the song in iTunes, and it requires me to locate the song and select it before it will play. When I click on Paperback Writer in iTunes, it plays fine-but it's connected to the duplicate of the song-Paperback Writer 1. The duplicates are named " 1." Example: Original file is named "Paperback Writer" the duplicate is named "Paperback Writer 1". These duplicates do NOT appear in the list of songs in iTunes itself, but only in the Music folder. Duplicates of every song have appeared in the Music folder on my PC. ITunes Links to a Duplicate of Every Song in Music Folder I hope someone has a solution for this. If you have lots of duplicate song listings that lead to the same file, this is a very tedious process. If you have songs on more than one album and want to keep them available on both album lists, you can ask for only duplicates from the same album to be displayedĢ) Highlight the duplicate song listing that you want to delete and select "delete from library" or just hit "delete" on your keyboard.ģ) When the iTunes pop-up asks, "Do you want to move the selected song to the Recycle Bin, or keep it in the iTunes Media Folder?" select "keep file." This will delete the duplicate listing from the iTunes song/album list while keeping the other copy working/connected to the song file in your iTunes "Music" folder.Ĥ) Do this for every duplicate in your song list. But there is a solution :-)ġ) Ask iTunes to display duplicates (File>Library>Show Duplicate Items). If you deleted the file from the Recycle Bin, you would totally delete and lose access to the song file. In this situation, if you were to delete one of the duplicates of a song listed in iTunes and put it in the Recycle Bin, the other listed file wouldn't play anymore. This issue can happen after importing music files from an external hard drive. The following steps tell how to safely delete duplicate listings of an iTunes song file when the duplicate listings refer to the same file/file path.
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