Deleting duplicate songs off of iTunes??

Hi. I just recently downloaded some songs on my iTunes and they came up as stuff like "#3: [Artist]-[Song Title]" and stuff like that for the name of the song. Well I manually manage my iPod, and so I renamed all of the songs that came up like that before and then I went through and added all of the recently added songs from my recently added playlist and now the ones that came up with jacked up titles AS WELL AS the ones I renamed are on my iPod. I tried going into iTunes to right click on them and delete them, but in iTunes, they only show up in my iPod's recently added playlist, not in the library, and they won't let me delete them. Can someone please tell me how to delete the ones with messed up names? Thank you!

You can change the update option of your iPod to "manually manage music and videos" if you want to delete songs from iTunes. Your iPod will not sync with iTunes in this mode so it can have different content, you can get details here:
Managing content manually on iPod
iPod 101: Fill 'er Up
One major word of caution. If you delete songs from your PC and have no back up other than the iPod you will risk losing them permanently if your iPod fails or you find you have to restore it to solve a problem. You should consider investing in an additional internal or external hard drive to store/back up your music. Alternatively at the very least back up songs you can't replace such as iTunes downloads to CD or DVD. Forum member Buegie has compiled a very extensive procedure for backing up your music which you'll find at this link: Backing up iTunes
Something else to be aware of when using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device. In that case use Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Windows system tray on your desktop or check this link: Safely Disconnect IPod

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