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Author Message   Jgberkeley Citizen Username: Jgberkeley Post Number: 4627 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:43 pm:        I have two computers. One I rip a collection of CD's from. The 2nd, I rip a collection of CD's from and purchase and down load stuff from. I have made my 2nd cpu as the home computer. Now I have dup copies of ever song that I have on the Ipod. I've learned how to copy a Data Base from one CPU to a 2nd, and I've learned how to cpoy the 1st to the base. And I learned how to imporat all that the the Ipod. Only, I now have 2 or 3 copies of each song. What am I doing wrong??   Bailey Citizen Username: Baileymac Post Number: 390 Registered: 3-2005 Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 7:58 am:        Sounds like you've copied your entire library from one computer to the other, and then copied everything back to the first computer, and now everything is on the iPod multiple times. I think you need to manually delete all the duplicates. In iTunes, use the Edit pulldown menu, select "Show Duplicate Songs". Then just delete any duplicates. Next time you sync your iPod with your computer, it should delete all the duplicates you have there, but if not, you may need to reset your iPod. The easiest way to get songs from one computer to the other is to burn a cd with just the songs you want to copy, don't just copy the entire database.   Jgberkeley Citizen Username: Jgberkeley Post Number: 4628 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 12:17 pm:        Need help. Removing the Dups will take a very long time. My Ilibrary went from 2200 songs to 4400 songs. That is a lot to delete. The problem is not the Ipod, it is the Itunes library. Is there a quicker way to sort this all out? Also, in the Itunes library, what is the box in the Name section with the check marks? What does that checkd box mean to me?   Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4302 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 12:42 pm:        the check box indicates that the song is selected, as in you want to enable it to play, or unchecked it is not able to be played, such as when that song comes up next in the playlist, if it is unchecked it will not play and iTunes will skip to the next checked song. Now for your dupes, you could always use Corral Dupes, it will give you more control than the iTunes way. But in your case since all of these tracks were added on the same day, I would right click on the top of one of the columns in itunes, such as name, then scroll down and select to add the column "date added". Then select that column, all the dupes added the same day should be grouped together, select all of them in one fell swoop and trash those suckers.   wnb Citizen Username: Wnb Post Number: 473 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 12:49 pm:        Ugh what a pain. OK so let me make sure I understand the situation. One instance of iTunes has the complete and correct library. It is the instance you sync your iPod to. There are no duplicate songs in this one, and furthermore there are no missing songs there. The second instance of iTunes, on a separate computer, has some or all of the items in the first instance, and many of them are in duplicate. There are no items in this second instance of iTunes that do not exist in the first instance. IF all the above statements are correct, then I'd completely wipe the second instance of iTunes. Then, I would enable sharing on the primary instance of iTunes, and on the secondary computer, I would simply share the primary's library across your home network, thereby not housing any of the files locally on that computer and maintaining only one copy. Finally, I would go through my primary library's "Purchased Music" list and make sure I made backups for archive of any of those files. The ones you ripped from CD have their own implicit backup in the form of the CD itself. A possible place to store those backups might be on the second computer, BUT I would NOT import them into that instance of iTunes, I'd just keep the files for backup. If my conditions noted above are not correct for your situation, this might not be the best approach, as you could end up deleting something off the second machine that you then can't get back.   Jgberkeley Citizen Username: Jgberkeley Post Number: 4629 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 5:26 pm:        Thanx for the checked box info. Now I think that I am in control, we will see. Dup stuff. Thanx for the info on that, I sorted it all out and now have a reasonable dup list that I will keep. (Same Song, on different albums) What I need to figure out is how not to do that again. wnb, no that is not correct. Computer 'A' is at the business and is on DSL, so down loads take place here and some of the CD loads. Computer 'B' is at home, on dial up internet, and is where the bulk of the CD loads are taking place. I use the Ipod in the data mode to move the folders over, and I used add folder to move them into Itunes. Well that works, however, I create the doubles. What I need to find is a way to add only the songs that are not currently in Itunes on my business base computer. Hummmmmm   Jgberkeley Citizen Username: Jgberkeley Post Number: 4630 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 5:42 pm:        I, the Iidiot just figure out one problem, or at least one way to cause the probelm of dups. Here is how it goes. Load a CD that you want to rip. Up pops: you have copies of some of these songs already. Replace them? Do Not Replace them? I select Do Not Replace them, thinking that it will just load the missing songs. Well, in a very controlled test, I said Do not replace, and I now have dups of every song. What an Iidiot I am. Later, George   Jgberkeley Citizen Username: Jgberkeley Post Number: 4631 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - 12:50 pm:        If I remove a song, as in delete, from my Itunes, will it be deleted from my Ipod on the next resync?   Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4345 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - 1:07 pm:        only if you have it set to be automagically updated, I prefer the manual setting.   wnb Citizen Username: Wnb Post Number: 474 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - 1:11 pm:        Yes it will be deleted from the iPod assuming you are using automatic (not manual) sync. If you have multiple copies of the song in iTunes and you use automatic sync you will have multiple copies of the song on the iPod. If you delete one of the copies, when you re-sync, one of the copies of the song will be deleted from your iPod. However something puzzles me and that is that you said you did not have duplicate songs on your iPod. That I don't understand, if you have dups in iTunes you should also have them on the iPod (unless you don't use auto sync). Also -- IMPORTANT -- when you delete the dups in iTunes, have iTunes move the underlying files to the trash bin for you. Remember to empty your trash also to free up the disk space. Otherwise you won't be freeing up your disk space... AND will have a hell of a time going back into your iTunes music folder and having to manually remove the underlying files. When you're in the Library view, and you delete files, a box should pop up asking if you want to move the files to the recycle bin. Definitely do it!