Why does itunes keep creating doubles

[admin_exported]

Im getting close to reverting to my cassette walkman after whats happened with my itunes and ipod over the last couple of days! I added all my lossless files to itunes from their location on my Nas drive but when i did this its created double of a lot of the files in the original folders and in itunes these were 100% not in the folders prior as if i go to get info the create date is today any ideas why its done this? Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

I just checked and its not creating doubles of everything and the doubles it is creating are compressed.

 

[idc]

Hi flairdj. Itunes will create doubles when anything from the smallest full stop is different from the original file, otherwise it will ask you do you want to replace the original. I ended up with doubles when I upgraded a whole load of tracks to the plus bit rate. The doubles were ones where I had renamed the track to put it into a compilation, or changed the artwork, anything. So if you have put a whole load of lossless tracks onto itunes to replace lower bit rates, it will not replace them.

 

[Anonymous]

Well this is a completely empty itunes library and just dragged and dropped from the hard drive to itunes as i say somehow by itself its creating doubles there must be a way of stopping it doing this?

 

[basshound]

I think it might be to do with import settings,for example if your import setting is for aac and you add an mp3 it will make a copy in aac as well so you end up with 2 files.Change the import settings to the same file type as you are adding and hopefully you will end up with only 1 file.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi just checked its set to apple lossless i add the same file type. Its strangely adding doubles to the original folder and my library getting annoying the time im going to spend deleting the wrong files now!

 

[John Duncan]

How are you adding them to iTunes?

 

[Anonymous]

Completely empty itunes library drag and drop from nas. Its not doing it to every album thats whats confusing me and the double its creating is in aac.

 

[Anonymous]

Look in preferences.

Have you set the NAS as your library location?

Is a box ticked called "Copy files when adding to library"?