Delete/Remove "Folder to Library"

Here is the deal. I set up a dummy folder to test iTunes for my iPhone. I added this Dummy folder with "Add Folder to Library". This folder included a few high quality albums (8MB per song). Now that I have the hang of it, I want to link iTunes to my smaller files (3MB per Song). How do I do this so that I do not get a duplicate of the high quality albums?

Probably no response because there's no simple way to do this automatically in iTunes.
I'd suggest you go ahead and add all of the smaller files and then deduplicate your library. If you have a few, say less than 100 of these high quality files, probably easiest to show all of your music, and then select "File" > "Display Duplicates", sort the list by the name of the song, add the size column to the view, and clean it up yourself. If you have thousands of these high quality files, then you might want to investigate one of the many iTunes deduplication utilities to help automate this process (google "itunes dedupe" or "itunes deduplication", which for me yielded hits like TidySongs, though I've never used it and can't vouch for it).

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