Windows 10: how do i delete duplicate songs on the windows 11 media player

the windows media player app has duplicated all my songs in the app and icant delete any songs in the app, also can't delete from my files because there are no duplicates there only in the app. What do I do?

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Window Media Player creating duplicate songs?

Hi,

I have Windows Media Player ver. 12.0.7601.24499 running under Win 7 Home Premium on a HP laptop (several years old). I like the player but it seems to create duplicate listings of every song in my album listings...2 no. 1 songs, 2 no. 2 songs, etc..for
every albumsong I have listed for it to play. I've tried deleting the duplicates but when I reopen the player, it just re-creates the duplicates. Any answer for this?

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Windows Media Player weirdness - duplicating songs in library

Hello I encountered this once before and fixed it through shear brute force by manually deleting all the duplications. For whatever reason I find that when I open an album in Windows Media Player there will be 1 or 2 duplicates of each song. The files in my Music folder are normal so the duplications appear in the Media Player folders only. Is there a quick and easy fix for this? Should I just dump that app and find something new? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

How do I stop Windows Media Player from replacing deleted songs back to the WMA Library in Windows 10, after they are deleted?

When I delete duplicate files of songs from the Library of Windows Media Player in Windows 10, the files are immediately added back to the Library with a new file path leading to the recycle bin. To remove these duplicate files of songs from the Windows
Media Player I have to first, empty the recycle bin, and then, after that, the unwanted duplicates will disappear from the list in Windows Media Player. I don't want the deleted duplicate song files to be added back to my songs list. In the Recycle Bin, I
do have the button checked that says: "Don't move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove the files from the computer when deleted." But that doesn't stop the deleted duplicates from being restored to the WMA song list. How do I stop the deleted files of the songs
in Windows Media Player from being added back to my "Songs" list when I delete them? Is there any setting on Windows Media Player, in Windows 10, that will stop the deleted songs from being added back to the "Songs" list when they are deleted?