Recently, I have begun the long and ardous process of organizing my massive music library in iTunes (currently at ~34 GB). As I do so, I run into the problem of duplicate tracks: the same track, from multiple albums. When albums were consumed in physical media, this made sense: the same track from different albums would never be listened to concurrently.

Now, when all the music is presented in a massive blob, there’s no point to having the same track twice. However, there’s no easy way to resolve the difference: if I delete the track, the album becomes incomplete. But if I keep both it divides information and makes things messy. If only there was some way to “tag” a track to multiple albums…

How do other people handle this?