Imported files are doubled or trippeled

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Imported files are doubled or trippeled

If I add song files from my harddisc into the itunes library I find the from every song title two or three copies! On the harddisc I have just one file of every song but they are doubled, tripled ....
What can I do to avoid this? How can I wipe out the doubles if I have thousands of files in the library?
Thank you for your kind help!
Heinz

Posted on Oct 7, 2005 1:45 PM

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Answer 1

Tim Evans

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Oct 7, 2005 1:53 PM in response to Heinz Bosshard

are the doubles both "playable"? I doubt it.
I think what you are seeing is the WMA files listed,
and they are converted to AAC (.m4a) files - because
iTunes does not play WMA. So what I had to do was
remove the WMA files from the iTunes playlist.

Make a smartplaylist.
"Kind" "is" "WMA audio file"

And you can either convert them to mp3 or AAC
or simple delete them from the listing.

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Answer 2

Oct 7, 2005 2:19 PM in response to Tim Evans

Thanks! But the doublesare playable too. There are MPEG and AAC files doubled...

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