Deleting large no's of duplicate songs

hi can anyone help me with this prob?

I figured it out. If you're like me, you have essentially two libraries; one library added at times in the past and one library added recently. I wanted to delete all the old duplicates. Here's how:
1)if you don't have "dated added" in your view options, add it (view/view options/date added).
2)sort by "dated added".
3) this should seperate your libraries by the dates they were added, and you can delete a whole group of older or newer songs.
I hope this makes some sense.
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