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Duplicate songs on iPhone 12 Pro Max after syncing

I just got my phone and, after setting it up, tried to restore it from a backup. It kind of worked, but most of the music was still missing. Since I didn't want to go through the thousands of songs I have and redownload them one by one, I decided to sync my phone on iTunes. After syncing, Music shows one album, but every track is duplicated under the same album. Two track ones, two track twos, etc. I checked to see if one was a cloud file and the other was actually on the phone, but every one I tried, both songs were on the iPhone and I didn't have to download anything. I tried restarting both the computer and iPhone and resyncing, that didn't work. I checked the duplicate songs on iTunes option in iTunes and yes, those are duplicated, but there are thousands more that don't show up on iTunes as duplicates but was put onto the phone as a duplicate. If it comes down to it, I'll remove all of the music and just resync and hope it doesn't duplicate again. But if it happens in the future, it would be nice to have a solution. Thanks for any help you can give me!

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Posted on Nov 17, 2020 3:05 AM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2020 4:14 AM

I have the same exact issue. It's maddening. I think the solution is going to be syncing the phone with the "sync music box" unchecked and then re-syncing with that box checked so it removes all the music files on the phone and then reinstalls everything from the iTunes Media folder. I don't back up to the cloud, I back up onto my PC. This happened to me once before years ago and I recall this is what I had to do to get things back in order. You would think there would be some type of check so this can't happen. The most frustrating thing is the time involved. I can't leave without the phone so I'm stuck while this all happens. Continuing my love/hate relationship with technology...

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