[bballe336]

So every time I import a new album into iTunes I get 2 copies of every song. This is mainly torrented music. It doesn't auto import (and I don't want it to) but when I drag the folder containing the album into the iTunes window it imports each song twice and I have to go through and delete the duplicates, which is a pain in the ass. How do I make this stop?

Thanks for the help.

[Mac User #001]

You may have iTunes preferences set to encode songs in a different file type than what you are importing, so it is importing the song, then encoding it in what it is set to, where it makes a copy of the song. Go to iTunes/Preferences/Advanced/Importing/Import Using, then choose the encoder you need.

Just a guess.

[TETENAL]

I think you guessed wrong. Importing never reencoded songs for me.

If I had to guess I would say you are dragging the song files and a playlist file (that's .m3u if I remember correctly) onto iTunes so each song is imported separately and as part of the playlist (ie. twice).

My suggestion would be to purchase albums at the iTS or rip them from CDs you already own.

[JonoMarshall]

Tetenal's bang on the money there.. most torrents contain a playlist link to all the songs and the individual songs themselves - hence copies if importing the whole folder.

My suggestion would be to purchase albums at the iTS or rip them from CDs you already own.

My suggestion would be to double click the playlist file only. (Although IMO torrents are theivery if you've never paid for the tracks.)

[Graviton]

The MPAA and RIAA sometimes release Torrents with a file that creates a seemingly duplicated file.

The secondary file appears like a music file (and plays like one), but it's actually a small application which over time builds into an organic compound that slides out of your speakers at night and eats your brains while you sleep.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Graviton 

The MPAA and RIAA sometimes release Torrents with a file that creates a seemingly duplicated file.

The secondary file appears like a music file (and plays like one), but it's actually a small application which over time builds into an organic compound that slides out of your speakers at night and eats your brains while you sleep.

This is my hunch, as well.

To the original poster: You should find that the songs aren't actually imported twice; they're just added to the playlist you've dragged them into twice.

But yeah, this is due to your dragging the .m3u playlist file into iTunes as well as the individual songs.

[ghporter]

I would argue that it's potentially defensible to download a song or album that you own legitimately but are not able to use because of technical issues. I'd theorize that if a scratched up CD could be rescued through careful use of a disc copying program (and thence burned to a CD-R), then an even more scratched up CD might be "rescued" through downloading. I'm just sayin'...

But I have already put plenty of aluminum foil over all my speakers, so I'm safe from the RIAA's brain eater goo for the time being.

I had an interesting revelation a while back though. Several purchased songs were recovered from my iPod after a hard drive failure wiped out my library, but showed up as twins: BOTH .aac AND .mp3 files. I'm not sure how this happened (I used EphPod to recover my songs to my desktop PC-with a NEW hard drive).