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I had to move my primary folder location for my mp3's to a new drive that had more room. I've also told iTunes to look for songs in the new folder. Now I have dups of every song that I need to get rid of. I have a ! in front of every other song now that the old location no longer exists. I've looked in iTunes help and googled for help, but I don't see a really clean way to clear off and delete all of these dup files. Wouldn't be a big issue if I was just starting out, but 11k files is going to take some time manually to clear these.

Any pearls of wisdom out there to help w/ deleting dup files?

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Rodney

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I am having the same problem with a new PC that I just picked up...

Need to go back from two week's worth of tunes back to one and lose the dups.

Itunes is the devil.

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+1, I use winamp for my ipod, and its eleventy billion times better. I'm not positive if it could fix your problem, although I think switching over would eliminate the bunk copies. At least there is an easy "eliminate duplicates" command.

If you have a bunch of music you paid for through itunes though, you may have problems importing it to winamp. DRM, just another reason apple sux.

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What you're suppose to do is create the new library, then have iTunes consolidate everything into the new library. That doesn't help you much now.

What you could look to do is sort the library by date added, that should give you a pretty good line that you can delete everything before or after. Deleting them from iTunes isn't the same as deleting them from your HDD. On the Mac it asks if you linked files moved to the trash. I would hope/assume that it does the same thing on Windows.

YMMV

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You have to go to your library xml file (when I get home I can give you a correct path) and erase the entries that are no longer valid.

The best way is to move the whole iTunes directory into the same path as it used to be so that the library xml file resolves properly.

Edit: Unless you have a good xml parsing/editing script/program, you are probably better off deleting your library file and then reimporting or creating a library from scratch from the new folder location.

So move this file:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\Itunes Music library.xml

somewhere out of that directory and then start iTunes. Your music library should be blank at this point (it will probably gen a new copy of that file). Then do your Import From Dir operation pointing to where the mp3/m4a files reside.

EDIT2: by doing this, if you have playlists defined they won't be there anymore. If you open your old library.xml file, you can find the xml elements that represent these playlists and cp/paste those chunks into the newly generated library.xml and then do a find/replace on that part of the code to reflect the new file path etc. I've never done this but it should work.

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That, my friend, was a true pearl of info. Sorted exactly the way I needed it to. My pc is old, so I find I can blow away about 5 pages of bad links at a time. This is perfect! No more clicking on each file. Thanks David!!




How do you set up playlist in winamp? I have to set up play lists in iTunes so I can sort songs in the car. I have a low buck setup in the stang that only allows me to scroll song by song. By breaking down into play list it's easier to find the song I want to hear.

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Rodney

'08 Bullitt mustang, CAM 7
Autox VP '09-'10, President '11-'12, interim President 2nd half of ‘14
proud recipient of the Bowie Grey service award '12
Now just a guy driving a mustang....

Playlists function almost identically to itunes. To me, I like to be able to simply tell my computer "delete this song from my ipod", "add this song to my ipod" instead of the arcane "Sync", "Autofill" crap that itunes gives you.

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My iTunes lets me drag individual songs to my iPod, and select a song on the iPod, hit the delete key and have it disappear. I never use the sync button. I think you might have been doing it wrong.