Hi, all.
I just noticed while browsing my iTunes library that a percentage of my songs appeared duplicated with the duplicate track displaying an iCloud icon next to them.
What is this and how do I eliminate the duplicate tracks?
Thank you in advance.
I tunes Preferences, Store
Untick the show itune in the cloud purchases
I tunes Preferences, Store
Untick the show itune in the cloud purchases
Hi, Steve.
Thank for your help and reply.
Steve, do you know why this happens? I have not intentionally set up or want to use iCloud so do you know why some of my songs are stored in the Cloud?
I think these are songs that you have bought from iTunes, like an app when you buy it and delete it you can always go back to the store and download it again but for free.
Hello LoveHampton
Smartino is absolutely right. It's just apple trying to show you that you can download your songs again from the cloud. So anything that you purchase in iTunes will show up in iTunes with a little iCloud icon just in case you delete the app accidentally or you want to redownload.
xeni
This is happening to me, however my songs are only say "download from icloud". When I click on the cloud it won't let me download. Please help!
Hello n_Fraser.
What do you mean that it won't let you download? When you click does it bring up an error message? Or does it do nothing?
If it does nothing your Internet connection might be down or iTunes may not have authorisation to those songs. Try right clicking and then click show in iTunes Store. If it does that then click the redownload button on the song and see if that works.
Hope this helps,
xeni
Moreover I was able to turn this option back on after turning it off, and the duplicates with the cloud icon didn't re-appear (except for some I'd downloaded accidentally).
I'm pretty sure it's only supposed to show the one with the cloud icon when you bought something on another device (like I do on my iPhone) and haven't downloaded it locally yet...I'm guessing there's a bug where it loses track of what you downloaded already and toggling the setting resets this.
Duplicate songs with iCloud icon.
