For some reason when I open RB it's duplicating certain tracks, the same ones every time, see screenshot. When I reveal the track in finder there's only one file, and a finder search confirms that there is only one instance of the file on my machine. Not the end of the world but quite annoying as the second version doesn't have any of my loops, cues or adjusted grid, which frustrates when I'm playing and load the wrong one.
I'm running V5.1.1 on a Macbook Pro, 10.11.6
rekordbox itself does not have the capacity to duplicate tracks - that can only occur when you move or copy files and import them from that new location. Scroll over a bit to the right and take a look at the "Location" column (add it if it's not shown). That might highlight the true cause of this issue.
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I've figured out the cause, but not sure how I fix it.
The duplicated tracks have the same file name, but the 'Music' folder in the file path is capitalised on one version and not on the other e.g.
Correct Version:
/Users/xxx/Dropbox/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Billy Ocean/Unknown Album/Are You Ready.mp3
Duplicate version
/Users/xxx/Dropbox/iTunes/iTunes Media/music/Billy Ocean/Unknown Album/Are You Ready.mp3
Pressing 'Reveal in finder' for both tracks in RB reveals the same file in the same folder. The capitalised version of the folder exists, the lowercase version does not, so I don't know how RB is finding that or displaying it.
There ya go - somewhere along the line something changed the folder name from Music to music. You'll have to weed them out and remove them because technically they are the same, but at the same time, they're not... While it can occasionally be ignored, case sensitivity matters to software and file systems.
But when I delete those files from RB the next time I open the app they appear again, but that folder doesn't exist, anywhere.
So there are duplicates, one in Music, one in music, and you delete the music version, close rekordbox, open it back up, and both are still there?
Correct. When I re-open RB it's like the app has just found the 'music' version and analyses it like a new track
Are you using an XML file at all? rekordbox doesn't automatically add new tracks.
I'm not 100% clear what you mean? Exporting the XML?
No - I mean do you have rekordbox loading from an XML file in your preferences? Or iTunes?
Yes I do have my iTunes xml file located in my preferences in RB. Is that bad?
What happens if you disable iTunes in the preferences? Does it stop automatically importing those?