Whole Music library is duplicated

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Whole Music library is duplicated

Hi!

I have a fairly big Music Library (around 25,000 titles.) Now every single song is showing up twice. The funny thing: one version has the cloud symbol with the arrow, giving me the option to download it. The other version has the cloud with the x through it ("removed from iCloud.") But the latter ones are actually on my hard drive. (See picture)

So my questions are:

How do I remove the duplicates?
Which version do I keep?

Or would it be better to completely rebuild my library from the files on my hard disk?

Posted on Mar 13, 2022 5:05 PM

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turingtest2

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Mar 13, 2022 7:22 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

See Duplicate songs in iTunes/Music - Apple Community. In this particular instance signing out and back in again may resolve the duplicates.

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Mar 14, 2022 11:11 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks! Actually, when I opened Music today, it took a long time to open the Library, but then I was signed out. I signed back in, and the duplicates were gone.

The weird phenomenon with the hundreds of playlists with all my songs reappeared, though, although I had painstakingly deleted them all yesterday (you can only delete one playlist at a time.) But that's probably a topic for a separate thread.

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turingtest2

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Mar 14, 2022 12:02 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

If the duplicate playlists are empty you could try https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxdeleteemptyplaylists but if they are proper duplicates it needs another approach, such as deleting each playlist that has some form of trailing index number. I have a Windows script for this, but not one in AppleScript.

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Mar 13, 2022 5:39 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

Also, all my playlists are there in several versions, an "intelligent" one without a name, containing all my tracks, was there several 100 times (I'm deleting them now.)

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