How should i organize my music files on my mac so that they are easy to find AND (equally as important) avoid creating duplicate files? not neccessarily THEE way or the highway  I am using a macbookoperating system: Mac OSX 10.6.8.itunes 10.5.3
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
i've got macbook with itunes and a NAS server with my music library.
i imported all the music files from the NAS to my iTunes on my MacBook. it's okey.
but, next time a launch the iTunes its mark all my music files in the library as broken or unavailable. so i cannot sync it with iphone or other i*-devices.
so i have to double-click on each song to force iTunes recheck the location of a music file. i cannot store my music on my macBook because i don't have enough free space for it.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
All my music is entered twice in my itunes library. How do I get rid of the duplicates without deleting them one by one?
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iMac
Okay, so for two of my albums (both by the same artist) there are three pictures of each album as if they are each their own album. Every song is tagged the exact same, nothing's different, artist name and album name are the same throughout. Screenshot attached. I've tried clearing album art, deleting and reimporting, nothing seems to fix this.
Also, on that same album, half the songs don't play on my iPhone/iPod. They play perfectly fine on my Mac, and they are encoded the same as all of my other songs, but when I go to play them on my iPhone, the song never starts. Nothing freezes, the song just never plays. I have to restart the iPod app for any other song to play. I've tried restarts, restores, firmware upgrades, nothing. This problem has existed since 1.1.4. Why?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), I have apple care protection plan.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iTunes 10.5.3
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8), iTunes version 10.6.3
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
running osx 10.5.8
I let itunes organize my library on my imac drive
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