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There are a number of programs to tidy up your iTunes music library. Not necessarily Apple software and there is usually a small cost but do a google search and you will find them. Good ones also do things like sort out your album artwork.
A couple of links for you -
How to find and delete duplicate songs in your iTunes library | iMore
Tenorshare Music Cleanup ? Clean Up iTunes Library and Fix Missing Album Information
Lots more out there.
Cheers,
TimJ.
Sorry, I realise this is a bit of a hijack of the original posters thread but I have already replied to that, hopefully with something useful :).Quote:
Originally Posted by VladTepes
The answer to this issue again can be found with third party software, an app called ISyncr will take any files you want off the Mac and put them on an Android device. If you are on a PC then just keep your music files in a format that can be copied by your phone software.
Cheers,
TimJ.
was just trawling through the app store on home computer No.1 top paid app at the moment is Duplicate Detective. Appears to go through hard drive and find all duplicates and then give you the option to remove.
May be worth a look
Kenley
My problem is I was a computer tech way back when. I'm actually Apple Mac IIe qualified tech. But apple was only popular in schools and then even they went to PCs.
Now several years on I'm a PC thinking kind of person and it's become burnt in (except for some Linux Play) and I cant think the Apple way.
I's just like to view my Iphone like a drive when I connect it so I can move music to it and off it as I choose.
I don't seem to be able to download music to my phone that I have purchased with another device. The family share an Ipad, my daughter has and Ipod, I have and Iphone 5s, my wife Iphone 4 and my son my original Iphone 3 (he only uses it as an Ipod). Now if I go to Itunes store it says the song has been purchased but it wont let me down load it. Do I really have to go to each device and see which one lets me down load it again then update Itunes on my computer then add it to my Iphone where I want it? Cant I just down load it on the phone I want it. I mean I have already purchased it and all the devices are registered to me. WTF.
Then I have purchased an album on my Iphone which I thought were a great lot of songs. Turns out they were all cover songs and rubbish. Now I cant get rid of them. If I put my phone on random and I'm within Wifi range, they get downloaded from the cloud and then their back again. I just want to delete them forever and If I want one of them again, I'll go back to the store and down loaded it. WTF
I'm just taking Tombie's advice to delete everything from Itunes (not the files), re-arranging my music then letting Itunes find it all again.
Remember when Windows had a file tree and you could just put stuff where you wanted it, not where software wants you to have it.
Happy Days.
I had (yes had) a seperate 500gig NAS drive for music setup sahred across the network. In early versions of iTunes it wasn't an issue it just saw it, created the library. Then some plonk got fancy and it rearranged where it thought stuff should be and moved it (but didn't delete the original) and so created duplicates. There has also been instances of it changing genres on a song and so there's two copies in the library pointing to the same file location.
So there's two ways it creates duplicates, but need different approaches to correctly delete the reference and/or file.
I just want a folder that says music, below that folders for artist, then album and then disc 1/2 if necessary.
How hard can it be to reference that?
Now we have (in total) 5 iPods (shuffles, nanos), 2 iPhones & and a iPad. Now it assumes that theres a different owner for each device and so I'm supposed to setup a different user account for each and pay for the same apps to be installed on each? No way fella. The sytem had a bit of a coronary but I did manage to make all devoces work off one account, so I could manage not only what was installed but what was purchased and what was being viewed.