Duplicate song with unknown symbol

I have one album in the Music app on my iPhone in where every song is duplicated. One of each set of duplicated songs has a round symbol to the right of the title - I can't find the symbol anywhere through the Apple support site or even a Google search. I cannot delete the songs with the symbol from my iPhone, but I am able to delete their duplicates if I want (although I haven't done so). The songs do not show up as duplicates in iTunes on my Mac. The symbol is grey - a little circle with a dot in the center. Can anyone tell me what the symbol is and how I get rid of the duplicate songs? Thank you!

Certainly with the v firmware a duplicate is defined as having the same title, artist and album tag. If any of these differ then it isn't a duplicate... so I'm surprised you're not finding this with the MTP firmware.
It might perhaps be with the MTP firmware it can't tolerate the same filename so this is worth double checking (whereas on the v2 firmware it doesn't care).
Also triple check the tags on these supposed duplicate files using some good tagging software, that will show both the v and v2 tag.
Are these MP3 files?

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