# Dropping folder gives double songs

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dropping-folder-gives-double-songs/69598
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 1, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dropping-folder-gives-double-songs/69598 "2025-09-01T18:22:42Z")
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### Author: ![Casper1](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@Casper1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Casper1)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dropping-folder-gives-double-songs/69598/1 "2025-09-01T18:22:42Z")

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Hi, recently moved back from Mac to Windows and Im running into some things I do not exactly know how to solve.

One of them is when I drop a folder in Mp3Tag, it sort of duplicates the songs in the folder, but it gives an error for those duplicates (see screenshot). However, when I open the folder, select all songs and then drop them in, it does not add those faulty files.

Also, is it possible to show the cover art in the list? On Mac this is done automatically but i cannot seem to find it on Windows.

Thanks!

 ![Schermafbeelding 2025-09-01 202051](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/5/5/55b00c27415e429aeaa56297811cad8b527eaec9.png)

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dropping-folder-gives-double-songs/69598/2 "2025-09-01T18:25:15Z")

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The files that you see have filenames starting with an underscore. They are leftovers from the Mac OS and should be deleted for proper Windows operation.

> [@Casper1](#):
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> Also, is it possible to show the cover art in the list?

No, not yet.

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### Author: ![Casper1](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@Casper1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Casper1)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dropping-folder-gives-double-songs/69598/4 "2025-09-01T18:44:20Z")

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Wow okay, I have about 200 albums so thats gonna take a while… I dont understand why this happens, it also does not show up in the folders.

Alright, thats unfortunate, hopefully will be implemented in the future. MacOs Mp3Tag also looks cleaner imo, but guess that is just about the difference.

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dropping-folder-gives-double-songs/69598/5 "2025-09-01T18:45:46Z")

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> [@Casper1](#):
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> it also does not show up in the folders.

You would have to set the Explorer to show hidden files

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/dropping-folder-gives-double-songs/69598/6 "2025-10-01T18:45:53Z")

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