Hi. I moved my iTunes library from my old computer to my new one, according to the instructions provided in this link:
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Support
The way I add my songs to the library, is by selecting the "Add folder to Library" option under "File". The music appearing in the iTunes library on my new computer is, I believe, the Music which is present in the iTunes media folder. I don't know whether there used to be these songs in the iTunes media folder in my previous laptop before I followed the instructions above.
But this is not the folder I use to keep my music in. I keep it in a separate music folder. I had such a folder in the previous computer, and have one in the new one as well.The iTunes in the previous computer used to know about this folder. So, if I used to get some new music, I would simply put it in this folder of my computer, and I would go to iTunes and go to the add folder to library option, and select this folder, and it would automatically add any new music files.
But I separately copied this folder to my new computer. So now my new computer has the exact same songs, in a similar folder. But I added some new songs to this folder, and I wanted to add these. And now when I selected the add folder to library option, it started duplicating all the songs, and adding the to the library. I cancelled the process midway, but I still have duplicates of all songs.
I don't know whether this is some bug, but I think by what I did in the above mentioned instructions, it was going to this. But is there any solution?
What I basically want is that I just simply add songs to my separate music folder, and use the "Add folder to Library" option to add all these songs to the library. But, I do not want to erase all the previous music data. I mean I have my playlists and other data like the number of times each song has been played in the iTunes media folder, which I got from the previous computer, so I would not like to make a new one.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
