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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2006iTunes duplicates - bug?
Hi All, Anyone seen this before? In itunes 7, when I import a folder of mp3s I get duplicates - each song appears twice on the import. Deleting either to leave a single one gives the "do you want to send this to the trash?" message, which I say "yes" to. If I do this for all tracks then all is well and it plays OK, but I don't know why it's doing it. Anyone seen this behaviour and can suggest a fix? Ric > Hi All, > Anyone seen this before? In itunes 7, when I import a folder of mp3s I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Anyone seen this behaviour and can suggest a fix? > Ric Not seen any fix but I do get the duplicates etc. Boring.  SignatureDavid Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com > Hi All, > Anyone seen this before? In itunes 7, when I import a folder of mp3s I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Anyone seen this behaviour and can suggest a fix? > Ric I recently had to clean up about 18-20Gb of duplicates in my iTunes library. I've been growing the same library since only about 2002, sometimes using scripts to rip directly to AIFF for CD images and the like. The upshot was that I had a lot of duplicate (formed as *.?.mp3, where ? is any single digit) and orphaned files. I only noticed this because somehow my library got hosed and started using up all the free space on my media volume. Somehow iTunes had jammed thousands of discrete files into my "Movies" folder on the same volume. The library data pointed to the files in these new locations, according to "Get Info". Many of these were obvious duplicates, as well. Overnight, my library had ballooned up several gigabytes and iTunes was throwing nasty errors on startup. Just in case the library was hosed for lack of space, I cleaned up some non-iTunes cruft to free up a gigabyte or so and restarted iTunes until it was error-free. Assuming my library was sound, I now had to get the files organized back into folders under the music folder, and get rid of all those duplicates. I plugged in my external FW drive, changed the iTunes music directory to a folder on that and asked iTunes to "consolidate" my library. Then I did the same back to the default location, cleaning up the target folder of all duplicates first (after checking to make sure I wasn't blowing away anything unique). All the files were renamed properly based on the metainfo and I cleaned up quite a bit of space for more music. There are AppleScripts that will try to consolidate duplicates for you, but in my experience pointing 10,000 files at an AppleScript is not going to bring you any joy. I'm sure they will work for a few hundred files, or a playlist at a time. > Hi All, > Anyone seen this before? In itunes 7, when I import a folder of mp3s I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Anyone seen this behaviour and can suggest a fix? > Ric What is the source of your folder of mp3s? Check to see if one of the files is a playlist file with the ending .m3u rather then .mp3, this will cause duplicate files in iTunes. The solution is to delete the files from iTunes, delete the .m3u playlist file and re-import the folder back into iTunes. > What is the source of your folder of mp3s? > > Check to see if one of the files is a playlist file with the ending .m3u > rather then .mp3, this will cause duplicate files in iTunes. The > solution is to delete the files from iTunes, delete the .m3u playlist > file and re-import the folder back into iTunes. BZZZZT! we have a winner! You're right: they've all had .m3u playlist files. Will try deleting this, but sounds a convincing fix. Seems a bit odd that iTunes recognises and uses these playlist files AND it's own order, but it's a nice easy fix and that'll do for me. Ta! Ric > Seems a bit odd that iTunes > recognises and uses these playlist files AND it's own order,... Err...sorry about that. .m3u support was something I requested for iTunes ages ago, and they eventually mailed me to say it had been added. Cheers, Ian > > Seems a bit odd that iTunes > > recognises and uses these playlist files AND it's own order,... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Cheers, > Ian <points> it was *you*!</points> I think iTunes should definitely support .m3u playlists. The way they've implemented it just seems a bit odd, though. You import your mp3s and it actually appears to import 2 copies of each file, as you can delete one and not the other. To support it in a useful way,you'd think you'd just import the .m3u playlist if available to give the track listing, and if it wasn't rely on ID3 tags...Unless I'm missing something? |
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