Duplicate Songs - Help Please

Hello - I have imported about 100GB of music from my external HDD into iTunes and unfortunatly there are a number of duplicate songs for some of my artists. In some cases I have the song three times.
Is there a program or a way in iTunes I can remove all the duplicate songs so just the one is present? It is very frustrating to have to listen to the same son twice.
Appreciate your help.
Thank you.

In iTunes go to File>Show Duplicates. Select the duplicates. Delete those duplicates by pressing optioncommanddelete. Choose to trash the file. Repeat for all.
You can ease the selecting by holding down shift key or the command key and select the duplicate songs.

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