Distinct mp3 and wma formats in windows media player

During my first installation of windows 7 it separated albums of mp3 and wma while they were not mixed I accidentally changed that... How to return to the way it was?  There seems to be no option more whenever they come out with a new media player, I am very frustrated...  Here's what happened I put music on my iphone of course it converted my mp3 songs, the problem is that it has doubled everything...  I saw that 1 song was separated from the rest of the songs on an album because it was a wma and others were mp3 (I still to this day don't know how it happened), I was going through the removal of all duplicate albums which were to WMA...  I tried to put the song I mentioned comes back with the rest of the songs on this album and multimedia reader told me it separates music by file type but I can do anyway, from here all merges duplicate albums so I have a ton of songs repeated on my computer, it cleaning in this way is very time consuming so I like it to separate the songs as before , but I can't go back to the way it was and I can't find answers on the web...

Hello Sephiroth726,

Thank you for visiting the Microsoft answers Site.

In Windows Media Player 12, it is not an option to remove duplicate files, although the media files can be manually changed. You can also view the link below with a similar problem:

http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7music/thread/dfd4976c-eb4f-4043-b5f6-d6d028e6eafe

Thank you

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