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Title: doubles, tripples and even more copies of the same song on an album
Post by: dmginter on July 14, 2011, 12:25:34 am

Do you have a simple way of getting rid of all the extra songs in my MC??
Thanks- lost my hard drive and transferred everthing to a new computer, lots of stuff doubled up

Title: Re: doubles, tripples and even more copies of the same song on an album
Post by: JimH on July 14, 2011, 06:55:53 am

Are the duplicates in different locations?  If so, you can search for the one you want to delete, and delete them from MC.  Try one or two before you do very many.

Title: Re: doubles, tripples and even more copies of the same song on an album
Post by: dmginter on July 14, 2011, 08:56:06 pm

Jim  This is an example of what I have...

The problem is, I would have an extra 7,000 copies



Name   Artist   Album   Rating   Genre   Track #   Duration   Bitrate   File Type   Date   Filename   
Moondance   Van Morrison   Best Of Van Morrison   ? stars   Pop   3   4:32   160   mp3      C:\Users\David\Music\iTunes\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music\Van Morrison\Best Of Van Morrison\03 Moondance.mp3
Moondance   Van Morrison   Best Of Van Morrison   ? stars   Pop   3   4:32   160   mp3      C:\Users\David\Music\iTunes\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\Van Morrison\Best Of Van Morrison\03 Moondance.mp3
Moondance   Van Morrison   Best Of Van Morrison   ? stars   Pop   3   4:32   160   mp3      C:\Users\David\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music\Van Morrison\Best Of Van Morrison\03 Moondance.mp3
Moondance   Van Morrison   Best Of Van Morrison   ? stars   Pop   3   4:32   160   mp3      C:\Users\David\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\Van Morrison\Best Of Van Morrison\03 Moondance.mp3

Title: Re: doubles, tripples and even more copies of the same song on an album
Post by: MrC on July 14, 2011, 09:20:21 pm

It appears you have two different sets of paths:


C:\Users\David\Music\iTunes\iTunes\iTunes Music\
C:\Users\David\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\

So, in the Audio > Files panes view, sort by Filename.  This will group all the files according to path, allowing you to select all of the files you don't want in your library db.  Select those and hit Delete.

Be sure also you don't have incorrect paths in your Auto Import list.

Title: Re: doubles, tripples and even more copies of the same song on an album
Post by: dmginter on July 14, 2011, 11:14:01 pm

Thanks!
That was a little tricky for me to figure out, but works.