This may help,
from the site: http://playlistmag.com/help/2004/09/trubitunes/index.php
Symptom: You've got a mess of duplicates in your iTunes library.
Cure 1: This can occur when you've used the Add to Library command
one time too many. To start fresh, select everything in your iTunes
library (the one in iTunes) and press your keyboard's Delete key.
When you're asked whether you want to delete the files from your hard
drive, respond NO. We're simply clearing out the list of songs from
iTunes, not deleting the songs from your hard drive.
Open iTunes' preferences, click the Advanced tab, and make sure that
the Copy Files to iTunes Music Folder When Adding to Library option
is unchecked. Now select Add to Library from iTunes' File menu (or
Add Folder to Library if you're using Windows), navigate to your
music folder (called Music on the Mac and My Music on the PC) and
click Choose. All the songs in the folder will be added to iTunes. If
you want to grab all the music on your computer, select a directory
higher up in the file hierarchy -- your Mac's startup volume or your
PC's C drive, for example. iTunes will add any compatible music and
audio files to its library.
Cure 2: If you're using a Macintosh, use a helpful ApplesScript to
remove the duplicates.
One such AppleScript is Remove Duplicates, which removes any
duplicates spawned by the same audio file (in other words, you only
have one copy of the file but multiple entries for it in iTunes).
Another is Corral All Dupes. This one searches for songs that appear
to be the same and places them in a playlist, allowing you to decide
which to keep and which to delete. These duplicates are multiple
copies of a song -- perhaps one in MP3 format and another in AAC format.
Both scripts are from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes site.
Jerry
On Oct 29, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote:
> HELP!!!! My wife inadvertently created what appear to be several
> thousand duplicates of playlists on iTunes on our G5. She was
> trying to reload her iPod, I believe. I've not found a way to clear
> playlists from iTunes other than one at a time. It would take about
> 10 years to get rid of all our duplicates that way. I thought we
> might copy the iTunes music library to our external hard drive and
> then delete all of iTunes from the computer and then download a new
> version of iTunes, but the apple help people didn't think that
> would be useful, since, they said, the playlists would still be
> there in the library. It also would be a pain to play all the music
> in the library from the external drive to get it back onto the
> computer. Any suggestions will be appreciated enormously.
>
> Also, I believe I read on a user group post that there could be
> some danger in using Disk Warrior on our G5. My copy of disk
> warrior is about a year old and works with our G4 with OSX. I don't
> believe I've used it yet on the G5 with OS 10.4.2. Thanks again for
> guidance-Ben Zion Hershberg
>
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