Delete itunes duplicates and triplicates

Hi - i have 7000 songs in my itunes library, but they are all in triplicate, that's 22,000 songs, so i need to delete 14,000 of them. i dont want to click on each one! how can I do this as a group?

Check [http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/searchTheScripts.php] as there may be a script that does this. I haven't used any of these so do your own verification.

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