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Aardor wrote:Yeah, I fixed 95% of my mp3's audio tags a long time ago with Picard and TagAndRename, I guess the artwork part wasn't included in the program yet.

Yay a fellow Tag&Renamer. I'll give Picard a try just to see what it's about but T&R does everything I've needed to in the past and is fairly flexible. T&R does support artwork and has since 2002 (2004 for the import from amazon.com feature) so that really was a long time ago!

And no flac spport in iTunes is definitely a killer for me. Then again I dont need a "music manager" so plain ole Windows Explorer and WinAmp is good enough for me

Ok.. I am getting really sick of iTunes duplicating and sometimes making triples of my music when I add it to my library. Anyone know any way to stop this from happening? It doesn't happen every time, only maybe 50% of the time, but considering I'm up to over 100GB of music with like 60-70% of it needing to be renamed as is, it's an EXTREME inconvenience.. Any help appreciated as usual.

EDIT: when looking at the "Show duplicates" view.. There are almost 6000 songs.. I'm gonna be pretty pissed off if I have to go through all 6k and delete them one at a time.. How hard is it to make this goddamn program a little more stable so this doesn't happen? It's pretty unacceptable if you ask me.. Hell even windows media player wouldn't have these issues..

I've yet to have that happen

Boogahz wrote:I've yet to have that happen

Me neither, no problems at all. I did accidentally import an album I had already imported, which of course duplicated it. I deleted the songs and paid more attention to what I was doing. If that's what everyone is talking about, then I'd say it's user error. But since I haven't experienced this problem yet (despite long and often usage of iTunes) I don't know.

The only way I can recommend is just to go through itunes, click View - Show Duplicates and it should show a list of all songs you have duplicated.

There are 3rd party apps that will supposedly clean up all duplicates but if these are files you have duplicated as well, those may automatically remove good versions of songs and leave the bad version intact.

Funk,

I had some similiar issues back when I ran both a Windows Media Player type of MP3 player for the kids and the Ipod for myself and the wife. Once I got everyone Ipods the problem disappeared. I have not tried this, but looks like it might help with the deleting issues.

http://www.opensourceconnections.com/20 ... -deduping/

If you manage the songs on your own, you won't have that happen.

Tyek wrote:Funk,

I had some similiar issues back when I ran both a Windows Media Player type of MP3 player for the kids and the Ipod for myself and the wife. Once I got everyone Ipods the problem disappeared. I have not tried this, but looks like it might help with the deleting issues.

http://www.opensourceconnections.com/20 ... -deduping/

Thanks! I'll give that a shot and see how it works.

It's not me adding it twice, and the only thing being connected to this is a iPod, so I'm not sure why it's happening.. Even when it duplicates songs, not every song is being duplicated. Maybe it could have to do with the fact that I have been importing music to iTunes while I am downloading 10-20GB of torrents at the same time and my computer slows down and fucks it up, but I don't know..

Like I said before, I have upwards of 20k songs in iTunes now and that is gonna continue to grow throughout the next week, so anything other than a script like Tyek linked isn't an option (especially manually managing my music or manually deleting dupes.)

Thanks again!

He meant that there is an option where you can manage itunes. He is correct, if you have Itunes manage itself, it may lead to duplicatons.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535

This may be the source of your issues.

Tyek wrote:He meant that there is an option where you can manage itunes. He is correct, if you have Itunes manage itself, it may lead to duplicatons.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535

This may be the source of your issues.

Oh I see, yeah I manually manage mine for a couple of reasons, I just misunderstood him