Copying my Playlists Duplicates All of the Songs

Hi All-
I have two iTunes librarys; one in lossless format for the Sonos/Home Stereo and a "duplicate" library in the MP3 format on an external drive for the iPods.
I have created playlists in the lossless library and would like to move them to the MP3 library/iPods. However, when I copy/export to XML/import/otherwise move them to the MP3 library, iTunes copies all of the tracks (in lossless format) to the MP3 library. (I'm worried that this is because the playlists are set to find the lossless files, not simply a list of tracks.)
Is there a way to get around having to recreate my playlists or avoid the duplications?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

I'm afraid that a playlist entry is always linked to a specific file. I don't believe iTunes is smart enough to look for a song with the same data.
So unless you find all these songs manually, I don't think there's a way.
Hope this helps.

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