jaikoz is creating duplicate entries in my itunes library!
i’m not talking about playlists, but the library.
there are songs i already had added to itunes and now they appear doubled. two entries pointing to the exact same file on my hard drive.
what can i do?
[quote=h4nne5]two entries pointing to the exact same file on my hard drive.
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Really, when a song is moved jaikoz doesnt always mange to delete the old reference because of a bug in iTunes but Ive never seen two songs pointing to the exact same file, are you sure?
Does iTunes Show Duplicates help ?
Can you see a pattern for which files it has occurred for ?
I’ve had this problem too.
http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/323.page
Two things I do now:
uncheck “keep files organized” in iTunes
uncheck the “auto update iTunes” options in Jaikoz
I don’t see that problem any more. It does mean that I have to scroll through Jaikoz-modified files in iTunes* to get the changes entered into iTunes database, but that’s a minor inconvenience.
I’m having the same problem. I was updating album artwork when all the duplicates were created. Each one points to the same song as the original. When I look in the XML file for iTunes, I have two entries for about 95% of the songs in my library. The difference in the two is that one entry shows all the data I set, such as ratings. The second entry shows album artwork info. Here is an example:
Original entry:
786
\tTrack ID786
\tNameLive Wire
\tArtistAC/DC
\tAlbum ArtistAC/DC
\tComposerBon Scott, Malcolm Young
\tAlbumHigh Voltage
\tGenreRock
\tKindAAC audio file
\tSize5675212
\tTotal Time349946
\tDisc Number1
\tDisc Count1
\tTrack Number4
\tYear1976
\tBPM2
\tDate Modified2008-08-09T20:07:25Z
\tDate Added2008-08-07T20:31:04Z
\tBit Rate128
\tSample Rate44100
\tRating80
\tAlbum Rating40
\tSort Album ArtistAC/DC
\tSort ArtistAC/DC
\tPersistent ID4A0824A5AEA2E41A
\tTrack TypeFile
\tLocationfile://localhost/Users/skaven/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/AC_DC/High%20Voltage/04%20Live%20Wire.m4a
\tFile Folder Count4
\tLibrary Folder Count1
787
2nd entry, added after updating artwork with Jaikoz. Notice that ratings have been changed:
3693
\t
\t\tTrack ID3693
\t\tNameLive Wire
\t\tArtistAC/DC
\t\tAlbum ArtistAC/DC
\t\tComposerBon Scott, Malcolm Young
\t\tAlbumHigh Voltage
\t\tGenreRock
\t\tKindAAC audio file
\t\tSize5679030
\t\tTotal Time349946
\t\tDisc Number1
\t\tDisc Count1
\t\tTrack Number4
\t\tYear1976
\t\tBPM2
\t\tDate Modified2008-08-18T01:25:50Z
\t\tDate Added2008-08-18T01:37:11Z
\t\tBit Rate128
\t\tSample Rate44100
\t\tRelease Date1976-09-28T00:00:00Z
\t\tRating40
\t\tRating Computed
\t\tAlbum Rating40
\t\tArtwork Count1
\t\tSort Album ArtistAC/DC
\t\tSort ArtistAC/DC
\t\tPersistent ID736BE4680BDC7776
\t\tTrack TypeFile
Locationfile://localhost/Users/skaven/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/AC_DC/High%20Voltage/04%20Live%20Wire.m4a
\t\tFile Folder Count4
\t\tLibrary Folder Count1
\t
3694
Hmmm, okay I’ll look into this further.
i’d even prefer apple looking into this!
it is fucking annoying and doesnt happen only with jaikoz.
i’m so happy the same thing is happening to skaven! all i can find on the net are forum-admins saying duplicate entries for the same file are impossible.
thanks,
hannes
I thought I was the only person having this issue too.
I’ve turned off “update itunes” and unchecked “keep itunes folders organized”.
I have about 8,500 songs- will I have to scroll through each one to get it to update in iTunes? Is there some way to refresh? I suppose this is really an iTunes issue so any help is much appreciated.
Great program btw. The amount of control you allow over the matching is pretty intense. There’s a small learning curve to get over in the beginning, but after that, so simple. More people should know about this program.
Got it!
I refreshed my iTunes library by dragging my iTunes music folder into my iTunes Library.
With iTunes v8, it seems that this issue is corrected. The default “keep folders organised” is working perfectly, and the update itunes xml in Jaikoz works as expected. Now we can enjoy Jaikoz+iTunes without problems! (just checked it by playing files and editing them in Jaikoz meanwhile).