Duplicate Music Files - Itunes

Fairwinds

In windows media player, all music looks as if it is appearing twice - once as an itunes entry plus the originalfile in my music.
The itunes file is within the music directory

Music directory is 18.8G of which itunes is 10G

Can someone advise how to correct this so itunes doesn't have an additional copy and also so they only appear once on windows media player

Many thanks

OK_Sauce

I suspect your trying to import WMA files into iTunes. WMA isn't supported and therefore iTunes will convert it to something it recognises. If you import MP3s into iTunes it will, however, just locate the existing file and it's location and add it to the library. I'm sure someone with greater knowledge of these things will correct me.........

googler

Delete one set of files would appear to be the obvious answer.

If you have your mp3s outwith iTunes, what did you do to get those same tunes into iTunes?

I use the 'Import Folder' dialogue, but that creates a LINK from iTunes to the external mp3, so there's only one file. What did you do?

Fairwinds

They are all mp3 files and they were created by : File ->add file to folder

I'll maybe delete the Itunes folder and re add

Fairwinds

Deleting the itunes folder wouldn't be an issue as far as the music is concerned, but my daughters have a lot of Mobile Applications in a sub folder - not sure I wouldn't lose all the ones that aren't currently synced? May think again about deleting entire folder

googler

So you've added the files to the iTunes library, rather than adding a link to the external file from the iTunes library.

open iTunes, go to Music, and (assuming all the music in the library is the music you added with the above dialogue) delete it all. If not all of it, then only delete what you added from the external folders.

Then, instead of using File-> Add File to Library, use Add Folder to Library, specifying the folder(s) that contain your mp3s.