itunes.. my music shows up 2x?

bimmerboii · 29 May 2008 at 16:22

Iv'e got around 40gb of music collection. With my new macbook pro, i put all my music to the "music" folder. Now, I start i tunes for the first time (it's empty) and drag the music folder into the library. After about an hour of waiting it finally collects all my music. However, some of my music are shown twice! I already checked the original folders and no i dont have 2 copies of the same music.

Now i tried erasing all the music in the itunes library, and do it again. Same thing happens. Does anyone know what's the cause of this?

Hamish · 29 May 2008 at 16:34

If you have playlists in a folder with music in e.g. M3U it will add the music, then also add the contents of the playlist. Perhaps this is causing it?

bimmerboii · 29 May 2008 at 16:50

great! u solved my problem. all the "doubled" music i have had playlists inside the folder with the music. guess ill be deleting them.

Hamish · 29 May 2008 at 17:32

Yes either delete them or just add the playlists: do a search for playlist files in your music folder then select them all and drag them into iTunes.

bimmerboii · 29 May 2008 at 17:36

oh crap i did a search on m3u and deleted all playlists.. should've put them in itunes instead

Hamish · 29 May 2008 at 17:45

Could always get them out of trash.... unless you emptied trash

bimmerboii · 29 May 2008 at 18:19

i have this bad habit of emptying trash immediately after i delete something

Deleted member 651465 · 29 May 2008 at 19:36

Just remove all the tracks and re-import them?

At least you know all the M3U playlists are gone! Only downside is the import time.

bimmerboii · 29 May 2008 at 21:54

yeah the import time took more than an hour.

I have another question.. Does all the music i put in the library get copied to another folder? I noticed my original music folder only had exactly 35.82GB of music. After importing my music to itunes, there's a new folder in my "music" folder called "iTunes" which is 35.36GB. Does this mean itunes simply copied all my original music? Can I now put all my music to an external hard drive and just leave the "iTunes" folder?

Sic · 30 May 2008 at 14:18

if you have the option checked in Preferences > Advanced > Importing (I think) to copy your music then yeah it'll copy it and you can do what you want with the originals

bimmerboii · 30 May 2008 at 16:05

hi, yeah i checked preferences and indeed it is ticked. everything's getting clear to me now. sorry for all the silly questions as im still quite new to all this. thanks for the help guys

itunes.. my music shows up 2x?

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