iPod Library keeps adding doubles of my songs

Well for one, go into preferences under advanced and change it so it doesn't copy files to music library when adding them. You can also go into edit and show duplicates afterward to make sure you got them all. Afterwards, when you rip you songs, if you do it through iTunes, you shouldn't have to drag it back in to add it. It should just show up in your library. If you do it through another way, put it into a folder in your music folder and just drag the new files in, not everything. Or change it back to copy files, drag them in, then deselect copy files again, but that's the hard way.

Easiest way is to just rip via iTunes (set it to rip to MP3 instead of AAC if that's what you want).

Also make sure that you are not adding an MP3 playlist (m3u) file or else it will copy the mp3 files first, then all the songs listed in the playlist (the same mp3's again).

This is one of the biggest bugs in iTunes.

Really, how hard is it to recognize duplicates and not add a second listing if the song is already in the database???? It makes adding new stuff WAY harder, especially if you use shared libraries or networked drives.

milo said:

This is one of the biggest bugs in iTunes.

Really, how hard is it to recognize duplicates and not add a second listing if the song is already in the database???? It makes adding new stuff WAY harder, especially if you use shared libraries or networked drives.

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Which is one of the reasons I hate iTunes. If you are making a music manager, at least make it do what its supposed to, manage music! Duh!

milo said:

This is one of the biggest bugs in iTunes.

Really, how hard is it to recognize duplicates and not add a second listing if the song is already in the database???? It makes adding new stuff WAY harder, especially if you use shared libraries or networked drives.

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Some of us like the way iTunes works, and there are times when I want duplicates in my library...

Note that the easiest way to deal with sahred libraries/networked drives is to run iTunes or another daap server on the library and just link to it in iTunes...

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