turmon, this may very well be the case.  I was going to reply and
disagree with you because I have the "exact same setup" on my G4 tower
where this duplication is not occurring... but I realized that my setup
there is subtly different in exactly the way you're posting.

Specifically, on the G4 tower, my files are stored on an external hard
disk, /Volumes/LACIE/Music ... however, my home directoy music folder
(/Users/cepheid/Music) is *NOT* aliased to the external drive. 
Instead, I have told iTunes (via Preferences) where to store the music,
but I still allow it to store its database and other info in the usual
home directory music folder.

In SlimServer, I have told it to use iTunes and specified that my music
folder is /Users/cepheid/Music, which has NO music files so there can be
no duplicates if indeed SlimServer is behaving the way you surmise.

On my laptop where this duplication bug IS occurring, my music is in
/Users/cepheid/Music and both iTunes and SS are accessing it there, so
it's very possible that this is why the duplication occurs there and
not on the tower.

I have been too lazy to submit this to bugzilla but it looks like
perhaps I should, since this seems like it could affect pretty much
anyone who uses both iTunes and SS on a Mac.

(Incidentally, the reason that my home music folder isn't aliased on
the tower is because SS refuses to start up if the folder specified as
the Music folder in SS is an alias... SS doesn't seem to like aliases. 
I have not tried using a symlink rather than an alias, though from your
post I guess that appears to work.)


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