nizzon
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Ok. Yeah the problem is probably rooted in WP. I used MediaMonkey before I got my WP7, I love it, its like Winamp on steroids.
I had the same problem with my Nokia Lumia 820.... Frustrated with the duplicate titles/ songs however I have discovered a "fix for this albeit a bit of a bind but it works.
1. Remove the SD card from the phone. You'll then need a card reader or the suchlike to put the card directly into your pc or laptop.
2. Copy any files you want to keep into an empty folder on your pc/ laptop.
3. When all the files have copied across format the SD card. A quick format will suffice.
4. Reassemble the phone and plug it into your laptop.
5. In windows explorer go to your mobile phone and find the folder "music" go into all f the different folders in there and delete any files that are in there such as album covers etc.
6. When this is done restart the phone and then go into Nokia music and it should show that there are no music files to play (or something like that!!!)
7. Copy all the music files back onto the SD card, copy and paste will suffice. This may take some time depending on how many files etc etc etc.
8. When this is all copied across then eject the SD card and put it into your windows phone and switch on. It will give a message asking if you want to store any music and photos onto your SD card. Tap the "yes" button. Then open up Nokia music and after a short time all of your music files will show and no duplicates. I tried this on three occasions and it worked correctly every time.
N.b. before you copy the files across makes sure all of the tracks have the correct names or they will end up as different albums and the music will be be all very the place.
I hope that this helps a few of you at the very least... It worked for me after I was losing a bit of faith in the phone..
Good luck
Well , I tried exact same thing (except I don't use Nokia music for listening) but it didn't take duplicates long to appear again and I found out that syncing should never be used on external memory.I had the same problem with my Nokia Lumia 820.... Frustrated with the duplicate titles/ songs however I have discovered a "fix for this albeit a bit of a bind but it works.
1. Remove the SD card from the phone. You'll then need a card reader or the suchlike to put the card directly into your pc or laptop.
2. Copy any files you want to keep into an empty folder on your pc/ laptop.
3. When all the files have copied across format the SD card. A quick format will suffice.
4. Reassemble the phone and plug it into your laptop.
5. In windows explorer go to your mobile phone and find the folder "music" go into all f the different folders in there and delete any files that are in there such as album covers etc.
6. When this is done restart the phone and then go into Nokia music and it should show that there are no music files to play (or something like that!!!)
7. Copy all the music files back onto the SD card, copy and paste will suffice. This may take some time depending on how many files etc etc etc.
8. When this is all copied across then eject the SD card and put it into your windows phone and switch on. It will give a message asking if you want to store any music and photos onto your SD card. Tap the "yes" button. Then open up Nokia music and after a short time all of your music files will show and no duplicates. I tried this on three occasions and it worked correctly every time.
N.b. before you copy the files across makes sure all of the tracks have the correct names or they will end up as different albums and the music will be be all very the place.
I hope that this helps a few of you at the very least... It worked for me after I was losing a bit of faith in the phone..
Good luck
I had this problem too. What i did is
Firstly, I formatted my sd card. Then I deleted all the files present in the hidden files like album, artists etc.
Secondly, I synced music and videos directly from windows media player. Now I don't have that problem anymore.
Try and let me know...............
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Have you tried syncing a second time to add more music to the collection? As I've said in my previous posts, I can easily get rid of the duplicates by formatting the sd card as you've mentioned and then resyncing (have tried WMP, drag&drop in Windows Explorer and WP desktop sync app). ALL methods will work the first time. It's the SECOND and subsequent times that I sync when the database gets trashed.
So please, the "delete, format card, sync" does NOT fix the underlying problem, regardless of which sync method is used.
OzRob, I did try syncing the second (deleting 2 albums) and third time (adding 3 albums, of which 2 albums were the previously deleted ones), using explorer (Vista SP1). I found no duplication.
That was after I formatted the SD card. The deletion method that I use is by deleting the hidden album files in the albums folder.
And if you have a Mac?