Is there a way to automatically delete repeated music files in iTunes?

[levmc]

This happens when music file is moved. But what happens is if I open an album within iTunes, there are doubles for every music file, the first of each double not being able to play. (Whenever I click it it says, "The song “(title of track)” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?")

 

[HDFan]

This happens when music file is moved.

How did you move them? If you did it via the finder that can cause problems because the library pointers in iTunes Library.xml would point to a non-existent file.

 

[levmc]

That's how I moved it. Is there a way to move it without causing this problem?

 

[HDFan]

Not that I know of. Some things depends on your preference settings:


If you have "Keep Media folder organized" checked then iTunes is going to put things in specific places on import. If you don't have it or "Copy files to Music Media ..." checked then maybe when you import into iTunes it wiil use the current location of the file. But iTunes needs to know the file location, and it stores that when you do the import. If you want to move the file you would have to delete it from iTunes which would delete the pointer, and add it back, which would create a new pointer.

Dunno if Doug's Applescripts has any scripts that might help with your problem.

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