itunes on wnidow and mac

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Rhidinger - 26 Feb 2005 22:54 GMT

I've recently got mac mini and I'm trying to port my music library from
the pc to mac. Using the "Add Library" function seems to be doing the
job except that it creates two copies of each song: song.mp3 and
song1.mp3; identical in every respect. What's up with that?
Thanks for the help.

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Tee - 27 Feb 2005 00:53 GMT

> I've recently got mac mini and I'm trying to port my music library from
> the pc to mac. Using the "Add Library" function seems to be doing the job
> except that it creates two copies of each song: song.mp3 and song1.mp3;
> identical in every respect. What's up with that?
> Thanks for the help.

Go to iTunes>Preferences>Advanced and see if the "copy files to iTunes Music
folder when adding to library" is checked. If so then it sounds like you
physically moved the files to the Mac hd but then by using the Add to
Library command iTunes created a new file. Did you place all of the music
files in the location specified by iTunes (usually
Users>You>Music>iTunes>iTunes Music ?

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Rhidinger - 27 Feb 2005 01:04 GMT

>>I've recently got mac mini and I'm trying to port my music library from
>>the pc to mac. Using the "Add Library" function seems to be doing the job
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> files in the location specified by iTunes (usually
> Users>You>Music>iTunes>iTunes Music ?

Nope. Shagged them from the shared directory on the PC using the "add
library" function. I can see itunes copying the files twice directly
into the itunes directory. Its as if the SMB share was reporting the
files names on the PC twice.

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itunes on wnidow and mac