Rekordbox creating duplicates without original file having been moved

I manage my music collection in iTunes. I started using Rekordbox five months ago and imported my iTunes collection successfully, and have since imported more songs successfully. However, there are now over 500 tracks in my collection where the original track (they have cue points, and are in my playlists) are missing, and a new duplicate has been created (without cue points, and not in my playlists). Also curious is that the original track that Rekordbox thinks is missing still exists on my USB, but it is not in any of my playlists (the duplicate is also on the USB).

After searching on the forums, I see that Pulse's answer is Rekordbox creates a duplicate if the original file is moved. However, I have never moved any of the files, they are all in their individual iTunes folders. There also seems to be no rhyme or reason for which tracks suffer from this, with duplicates ranging from tracks added into iTunes in 2014, all the way up until yesterday (April 17).

Pulse, how can I stop the duplicates from happening?

And after that, how can I mass delete the duplicates?

Cheers,

Tristan aka UnkoT

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zuperduper April 19, 2018 08:37

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Rekordbox doesn't create duplicates of your files, if they are moved or missing the app will flag them as missing and giving you the opportunity to relocate them. It's very easy to accidentally move a file in iTunes if file management is turned on, minor changes in the tags will move the file in the iTunes folder structure and this is probably what happened. Instead of adding a missing file again, use Rekordbox to relocate them to keep your cues and grids.

The Henrik Maneuver April 19, 2018 11:09 0 votes

I have this same issue. Completely random tunes suddenly duplicated for no reason. They have the same 'date added' date as the original, but a new 'date created.' If the original tune has cue points, those are NOT reproduced on the duplicate. It happened again this morning with three tracks that I haven't recently played, moved, renamed or ID-tag edited in iTunes or Rekordbox.

PC-UK May 13, 2018 20:30 0 votes

@PC-UK > Can you please post a screenshot showing those two songs and make sure their entire path / filename are visible please!

Pulse May 14, 2018 17:54 1 vote

@Pulse: Ah, I deleted the duplicates, but there might well be others, so let me check.

PC-UK May 14, 2018 22:15 0 votes

@Pulse, here you go. You'll notice the path for each track points to the same file, but one of them has a sub-folder that's all lowercase. That's the case for all duplicates in my collection.

PC-UK May 31, 2018 18:07 0 votes

Still no solution/sugestion to this major flaw???

mkz June 30, 2021 21:06 0 votes

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My suggestion would be to stop using iTunes.

I have not experienced this "major flaw" on either MacOS or Windows since I started using Rekordbox in 2018.

Ves July 01, 2021 10:22 -1 votes