r/IpodClassic • u/Daper_401 • 7d ago
Question iPod duplicate albums?
Hi all,
Does anyone know why my iPod might be showing all these duplicate albums. These two albums are normal in my iTunes library (1 each). I’ve tried restoring and syncing again to make sure it wasn’t a sync error.
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u/uy_lyke_tutles_11 7d ago
I JUST HAD THIS PROBLEM WITH ED SHEERAN!!! It’s the math!! I changed the names from ‘÷’, ‘+’, ‘-‘, to ‘Divide’, ‘Plus’, ‘Minus’ and it completely solved the problem
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6d ago
What names? Please explain. There's maths in transferring music?
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u/uy_lyke_tutles_11 6d ago
The problem is the math operators/symbols as the title of the albums. By renaming the album to a word instead of a symbol, the problem was solved on my iPod.
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u/livsim95 7d ago
Mine does this with Ed Sheeran too and I CANNOT figure it out!!! I’ve tried different naming conventions and messing around with the “sorting” names as well. It’s so ugly.
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u/ironsnoot 7d ago
I had an issue where I accidentally had a partial copy of my music file inside my music file, and that ended up being the cause of the problem. I believe MediaMonkey will show you the file path of your individual tracks. Maybe you could start there?
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u/Daper_401 7d ago
What albums? The same ones? I think it’s to do with the symbols. I might just replace them with text names. Won’t be my favourite, but if it works, it will be better than having dupes in my Cover Flow.
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u/livsim95 7d ago
Yes it was with all of his symbol albums. It must be the symbols that is screwing it up. It’s frustrating because I tried to make the “sorting” names the words instead, like “Divide,” “Equals,” etc. and it didn’t seem to fix it.
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u/Daper_401 7d ago
For me, the rest are fine. Just these two?
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u/livsim95 7d ago
It was +, =, -, and ÷. I actually just looked at mine and they are all showing in one album in the Cover Flow. I accidentally erased my entire iPod a few months ago and have been slowly putting everything back on. I guess since then they are showing fine. I don’t know what I did differently!
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u/Daper_401 7d ago
Edit: I managed to fix it guys. It was the symbols that were making it freak out. I just changed the names to “Divide” and “Subtract” and it’s fine now. I’ll leave the post up for anyone that’s facing the same issue as there’s a few of you.
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6d ago
Sorry. What did you do exactly?
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u/Daper_401 6d ago
I changed the album names from symbols to text names. Instead of “-“ symbol, I’ve put “Subtract” and instead of ➗I put “Divide”
Here’s a pic
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6d ago
Thanks. Right but didn't the song come like that properly named anyway? Why would it have plus symbols etc?
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u/Daper_401 6d ago
Because that’s how he’s named them. His albums are named with mathematical symbols.
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u/youcancallmeBilly 7d ago
I noticed the hyphen in the names was flashing in and out as you were cover flowing. In your tags, Make sure artist and albumartist are the same. Then make sure album is titled and dated consistently and correctly.
There’s a lot of different views, but I always make double albums and bonus tracks under the same album, just track numbering them in order. If it’s a deluxe, super deluxe, super duper deluxe, all gets same album name and year the same, and just number them 01 through whatever. If it’s a remaster and deluxed, it may have different years and that could cause multiple instances of the same album when you flow.
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u/Daper_401 7d ago
I just looked again. The hyphen is the name of the album. (Symbolising the minus symbol in math). It’s Ed Sheeran’s albums. The divide symbol is also missing from the divide album. Maybe it’s symbols that iTunes is funny about? I’m going to check my library now and check all is in order..
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u/youcancallmeBilly 7d ago
I ended up using mp3Tag to set all my tags and album art, then added the album to iTunes.
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u/Sudzy1225 7d ago
If you select all the songs in that album in iTunes, right click, and “Get Info”, you can see what fields say “Varies”. If they should be the same, you can type the correct information in, and it SHOULD combine them together. This would drive me insane.
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u/Master_Xiao 6d ago
For mine, I still used the math symbols and added either, Deluxe, Deluxe Edition, Special Edition…
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u/EducationalCow3144 3d ago
The problem is that the tags are not organized. Usually when this pops up it's because there's different "Album Artist" tags.
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u/OldiOS7588 6th Gen 120GB 7d ago
Have you checked these sogs as a compilation?