Another iTunes duplicates nightmare ...

[johnnylexus]

I was having this trouble of too many duplicates in iTunes. So I decided to erase the existing iTunes library files and re-import them into iTunes. Strangely, it is seemingly creating duplicates out of nowhere. I only rip entire albums. So let's say in my music directory of MP3's I have ONE COPY of Abbey Road. After the import of my music directory (ALL MY albums are in ONE directory), Abbey Road shows up TWICE in iTunes. WTF?

[juniperlater]

Do you have .m3u files in the folders to which you ripped the mp3s? That freaks iTunes out and makes it import twice.

[jude]

johnnylexus, search the Web for iTunes duplicate removal help. At some point some time ago I had a huge duplicates issue. If I recall correctly, I found a script that someone came up with that I ran to remove the duplicates, and it worked. It took quite a while to run, but it worked.