Hi Scott, It could be the mp3 tag versions that are the problem, because in principle multiple copies of the same tag information can be written with the ID3 version formats into these fields, and players might only use/read the last set. That doesn't mean that having the different bits of information written several times in the same header field can't cause you problems.
There's a command under the iTunes View menu to "Show Duplicates". It only finds items with the same Song name, so you need to check whether these aren't different versions of the same song --- a live concert version on one album and a studio recorded version on another, or multiple versions that show up in a collection album, for example. You can do that with the summary information page when you Get Info (command-i) on a selected track and read its file location. I find it easier sometimes to use Command-R, which will open a finder window with that track selected. Then you can check the album/folder you're in. I'd check that these weren't multiple library entries pointing to the same track. If so, you should be safe deleting extra entries, as long as you don't delete the actual song file by saying that you also want to move it to the trash. One other limitation of the "Show Duplicates" command -- you can't yet accessibly get back to a view where you show all, to my knowledge, If I select "Music" in the Source Outline, do VO-keys+M, arrow to the View Menu, and Down Arrow to "Show Duplicates" my Songs outline will be left showing only the duplicates for me to check, but I can't click the button that returns the view to all Music. I have to quit iTunes and restart it. Hope this helps Esther On Dec 02, 2007, at 11:40AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: >Hey all - I have a related problem that hopefully someone can shed some >light on. > >So, picture the scene. I've just got my MBP, seen accessible iTunes for the >first time, accessible frontrow for the first time, and i'm in a state of >pure joy. At that moment, this machine is just a glorified talking iPod >with a remote to me haha! I then decide to import a load of albums stored >in an artist/album/track number/song title.mp3 format from my pc where I >usually use winamp. For the most part iTunes handles this well and >reorganises the files perfectly where I've deviated from the usual folder >structure, because the ID tags are accurate on all this stuff. > >But, here's the issue. With some albums I'm importing, I'm getting what >seem to be duplicates of every track, usually in groups of 2 but ocasionally >I've seen 3 for each song. This is strange to me, because the same albums >had previously gone over to my iPod which relies on ID tags with no issues. >My first suspicion was that it would be because ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags were >both enabled for the songs, but after using winamp to disable the ID3V1 tags >for the affected albums, the problem still occurs. Don't get me wrong I can >go and tidy this stuff up manually, but i'd prefer not too, its a fairly big >library and in an ideal world I'd like it obsessively tidy. > >Thanks in advance if anybody can help with this... >Scott > > > > >
