Backing up songs from itunes player while maintaining the song information I manually organized through itunes player?

I want to clean out my current comp, so I would like to back up my music and only the music that in my itunes player. I have music in my itunes library folders that I have cleaned off my itunes player. I didnt know that when i deleted songs from my itunes player that it left the origonal downloaded file in the folder.
So is there a way to get my itunes player and itunes media folder looking the same, with song titles, artists, and even the songs that have been deleted off my itunes player? I have had a lot of music through this computer so there is alot of memory i could free up by deleting the songs completely that i once deleted off the itunes player.

haha Original**** sorry for the errors

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