iTunes Match Bug: Duplicate Songs

One other thing I've noticed is sometimes toggling iTunes Match off/on on the phone doesn't stick. Not sure why there are two different locations in settings for toggling iTunes Match? One is under "Music" and one is under "iTunes and App Store". Seems like they get mixed up sometimes. Turning my phone off/on seems to fix that when it happens.

my itunes on the computer shows everything is grand... but on my music on my ipod its a different story. different cd covers for the wrong songs and its got a bunch of duplicates.. i have no clue how to fix this. i dont use the imatch either. im rather angry. plesase help!!!??!!!!!???!!!! 😠😕⚠

This just happened on my iPhone and I have the latest update and I sync my phone once a week. So I am now totaly confused since everyone here had this problem months ago??

I had the same problem and tried all sorts of fixes. Called Apple Care and followed their directions, which worked: Turn off iTunes Match in your iPhone Music settings, then turn it back on again. It didn't take very long to re-load, probably 5-10 minutes (and I have a lot of music on my iPhone), and now the dupes are gone. Pretty simple.

I am having the same problem with an iPhone 5, running Windows Vista and the latest version of iTunes... I have purchased a bunch of individual songs, they are fine, but I have two albums that I have bought and on the phone they appear as duplicates... only solution is to delete both copies and re-load from the version downloaded on the computer to the iPhone. Strangest part is that when I bought one of the albums, I bought a single song at the same time and that single song gives me no problems.

I am somebody who is quite pedantic about play counts and last played date as I have playlists that updated based on this information. The library on iTunes is a lot larger than my iPhone can handle and I just move over what I want when I want it, listen to it, let it update iTunes with play count and play date, then delete it off my iPhone... as you can appreciate, this bug is driving me insane!!!

(I am NOT using iTunes match, and never have...)

I agree, this is just unbeleivable. I had an IPHONE 4S and never had this problem and now two things in Itunes are driving me up the wall. The Duplicate problem which also manifests itself in Car Tunes and also the inability for the phone to work in ITunes inverted. Whoever decided the headphone jack should be on the bottom of the phone and not allow you to use it in an inverted mode was drinking heavily while designing it.

I too do not use ITunes Match and still am having issues with duplicates.

Pat

Have they found a fix for this bug yet? If I had know the iphone 5s was like this I would not have bought one. I didn't the problem with my iphone 4. The sales person told me to back up every thing on my iphone 4 to icloud and then update my iphone 5s with icloud, I think that is where some of the trouble is. I also don't use iTunes Match. 😕

Started to happen to me when I updated to iOS 7.1. Never had the issue before, now every album downloaded is double. Unplayable. Completely useless.

Yeah the same happens to me too. I am driving myself mad over it...

I do NOT use itunes match.

My library is perfect, some songs entered thru cds others purchased direclty from itunes. My ipods work just fine (all songs are where they should be, no duplicates, artwork exactly as chosen).

When I sync my ipad air or my iphones5S wityh itunes... well another story:

- Some albums show twice. You enter an album and all songs including artwork are doubled!!!

- Some albums show artwork which is totally wierd... Not the one I have chosen and not the one currently listing in my itunes library

- Some albums or artists are not there

- A month ago (i think when the last ios update took place) some albums only showed the icloud icon next to them but when tried to download them nothing happened

I usually sync my iphone and ipad with icloud but also sync with itunes for the music since I do not use itunes match. I have tried to delete all music from the device and resync with itunes but i get the same problem with the duplicates and the artwork...

I will try to do this again with the toggle 'Show All Music' in the off position (previously was on) and see what happens...

Nonetheless this is taking toooooo long to get fixed

Update 7.1.1, and the bug is alive and well. Bought an album off of iTunes and on my PC iTunes it appears proper, on my Mac iPhone its all duplicates. I tried to remove them from my system to re-dowload them and I get an error saying I don't have permission (on an admin acount!!!) iTunes is soooo lame!

Yup - using iOS 7.1.1 and I am also having this problem. I love iTunes Match, but OMG is it ever buggy...

Hi guys,

I've just been swearing at my pc and my phone with regards to this. Just to confirm, I had songs available to download from iCloud duplicating up with the songs that I synced using iTunes. The following steps is what I have just done to resolve this for me - so I hope it resolves it for you guys too!

Go to Settings

Go to Music

Disable "Show All Music"

When "Show All Music" is enabled, quote "All music that has been downloaded or that is stored in iCloud will be shown."

When it is disabled, quote "Only music that has been downloaded to this device will be shown."

I hope this helps! I guess this means you would need to enable this to then download a track over wireless/from iCloud and then re-disable it? ..

Thanks!

Yo_Dancer

I'm very surprised that Apple has done nothing on fixing the bug for the chargable service.

From what I've read a lot of users faced the problem of duplicating songs in the iPhone (iTunes Match is turned on) after sync with iTunes.

Turning iTunes Match off and on helps...BUT ONLY TILL THE NEXT SYNC.

I have Retina MacBook Pro and iPhone 5 (all with the latest software updates) and I have to turn iTunes Match in iPhone off & on after each sync with my mac.

I don't agree with Disable "Show All Music" option. As it just hides the problem. And I sometimes need to see all the music in order to force the download of a song added to the iTunes recently.

So I had this problem with my 4S and solved it after reviewing all of your suggestions. By the way, I have an iPhone 4S, and do not use iTunes match.

I followed the advice of deleting all of my songs from iPhone via deselecting "Sync Music" in iTunes, however the duplicated songs were still on my iPhone. So I had no songs synced, but somehow there were 28 songs on my iPhone still. So what I did was backup my iPhone after deleting all of the music, and then restored my iPhone. After restoring my iPhone completely (it was like a brand new phone), I restored it using the backup with no music. All I did after that was recheck "Sync Music" in iTunes and after the music was back on my phone, no duplicates.

Hope it works for you guys, and hopefully it is permanent. This is great because it gives you your space back on your iPhone that was originally used for duplicates!