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Duplicated tracks on walkman NWZ - A15

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muffinman11
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Duplicated tracks on walkman NWZ - A15

I have duplicated tracks on my walkman NWZ - A15 and i have tried everything to remove them but to no avail.

With the walkman connected to my pc i have deleted the tracks from media go and the files themselves from file explorer on windows 10 also from windows media player but they are still there on my walkman.

Anybody got a solution?

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Pascale_F
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Hi muffinman11,

I'll see if I can find out how to remove these tracks for you, and maybe someone else in the community might be able to help in the meantime.

Thanks,

Pascale

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royabrown2
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Thanks  @Pascale_F

 

While you are there, can you tell me why, while my wife’s NW-A45 shows every single track as duplicated (because the Sony-supplied Mac Content Transfer program suddenly decided that what should have been an autoload of one album newly added to iTunes should be a reload of everything currently on iTunes) and yet Finder on the iMac only shows one copy of each track?

 

Transferring the contents of iTunes from an iPad Air 2 to an NW-A45, with all artwork shown - 3 weeks and counting, still only about 20 albums out of 66 with artwork shown, and now with everything duplicated.

 

Transferring everything on the same iPad 2 Air to a new iPad Pro 11in - under one hour, no grief.

 

 I feel like taking a hammer to the NW-A45 and just buying her a new iPod Touch :poop:

 

(Trying again, slightly revised, after a misdiagnosis as spam)


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muffinman11
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I have one album in particular which has every track duplicated three times but i have removed every file for these songs and the tracks are still on the walkman yet no one is coming up with a solution.

I only purchased the walkman because  i lost my cherished ipod classic while on holiday and apple don't manufacture them any more.

Itunes was so easier to get along with than media go.

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Vanilla_
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Hi muffinman11,

 

That must be annoying. I think this could be a glitch within the player itself. Have you tried to reset it to default settings before? 

 

@royabrown2, I think you can also try to reset the Walkman and test.

 

Vanilla_

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muffinman11
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I did a factory reset which didn't achieve anything.I then checked on "my pc" for all the duplicated tracks which showed the files were still on my pc.I then sent these files to the recycle bin where i permently deleted them and now these tracks have been deleted from the walkman(I hope that makes sense?)

Although i have lost all the songs,i can easily download them again and replace them.

Thank you all for your help.

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royabrown2
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Thanks, @Vanilla_ but I got rid of all the duplicates by deleting everything with the iMac Content Transfer program.

 

The time it took, the number of tracks mentioned, and the space consumed all pointed to a genuine duplication that the Walkman could see, but Finder couldn’t.

 

After the duplication was cleared, I disconnected the Walkman, let it rebuild its database, and satisfied myself that the only three tracks left showing, and the only tracks playable, were the three demo tracks it came with. 

 

Then I exited CT and reloaded it, and tried to repopulate the Walkman with Automatic Transfer, but Content Transfer was having none of it, and would not transfer anything at all.

 

If this is some ‘clever’ side effect of memory of the previous deletions remaining in CT or in the Walkman, I’m here to tell you it’s wrong.

 

Anyway, I dragged the iTunes music library onto the Walkman in Finder, and that worked, and we are now back to the situation where all the music is back on it (except for The Beatles’ 1, which seems to be an album title the Walkman can’t cope with) with no duplications, but some 20 albums only out of 66 have artwork attached.

 

Despite me using a Doug’s Scripts script that is supposed to move the artwork from album level to per-track embedded, and acts as if it is doing that, but does not result in the artwork showing on the Walkman for reasons yet to be fully investigated.

 

Oh, and we took the Walkman for a drive yesterday; plugged via the supplied Sony cable into the same USB on the Merc that the iPod Touch played music to us clear across Spain - nothing, nix, nada. I suppose it might play in Bluetooth; life is too short to dig too deeply :frowning2:


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