my library has over 17K songs many of which
are duplicates and triplicates some with an exclamation mark next to it.
I know how to filter for duplicates but don't know which one I should delete.
Don't understand how to do it or how it keeps happening. I know I've
tried before but it seems I'm deleting the wrong one.
iPad
The ones with exclamation marks against them mean that they are no longer on your hard drive (or external drive, if using a PC that may be because it's been given a different drive letter when you reconnected the drive) that iTunes is expecting to find them - if they are some that are showing as duplicates then you can delete those missing entries.
If using windows then see if this post by turingtest2 helps : Duplicate songs
As to why it keeps happening, it depends upon what you are doing. If you repost in the relevant forum on here (there are separate forums for iTunes For Windows and iTunes For Mac) you may get some help as to why and how to stop it
The ones with exclamation marks against them mean that they are no longer on your hard drive (or external drive, if using a PC that may be because it's been given a different drive letter when you reconnected the drive) that iTunes is expecting to find them - if they are some that are showing as duplicates then you can delete those missing entries.
If using windows then see if this post by turingtest2 helps : Duplicate songs
As to why it keeps happening, it depends upon what you are doing. If you repost in the relevant forum on here (there are separate forums for iTunes For Windows and iTunes For Mac) you may get some help as to why and how to stop it
how do I manage duplicate songs and know which one to delete?
