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Duplicate Songs after signing up for Apple Music

I recently signed up for Apple Music, and when I loaded up iTunes on my computer I was distressed to find that EVERY song had been duplicated. This question has been asked other times:


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7562836


But the given answer to just search for duplicates and delete every other one just doesn't ring true. There must be a better solution!

Posted on Sep 20, 2019 7:23 PM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2019 7:28 PM

Well, in classic fashion, as soon as I went through the trouble of posting a question, I figured out the solution. In my case I had enabled apple music before authorizing my computer. I think this is what happened at least. So iTunes couldn't properly sync my library, and it's solution was to just leave duplicates of every song.


I fixed the problem by disabling Library Sync, and then re-enabling it a few moments later. Here's the post that I found that led me in the right direction:

https://support.apple.com/en-ke/HT204926


Maybe this post will at least lead somebody in the right direction someday!

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Sep 20, 2019 7:28 PM in response to chris_pebble

Well, in classic fashion, as soon as I went through the trouble of posting a question, I figured out the solution. In my case I had enabled apple music before authorizing my computer. I think this is what happened at least. So iTunes couldn't properly sync my library, and it's solution was to just leave duplicates of every song.


I fixed the problem by disabling Library Sync, and then re-enabling it a few moments later. Here's the post that I found that led me in the right direction:

https://support.apple.com/en-ke/HT204926


Maybe this post will at least lead somebody in the right direction someday!

Duplicate Songs after signing up for Apple Music

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