Duplicates in my music library

I have a playlist for my songs in the I-Phone 4. My problem is that i have duplicates of the songs. But my playlist and i-tunes are syncing, just that when i browse the songs through the phone's library i have 3 copies of each songs. When i checked the i-tunes for duplicates, nothing appeared. How do i delete the duplicates? And i don't understand how did that happened. Can please somebody help me? Really appreciate it. Thank You!

Select the song and type Shift+Command+R to show where the song file is located (or use the File menu > Show in Finder).

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