Duplicate songs on upload from my music and itunes music

Help. I had a computer crash. IN the process of hooking up my ipod to try to get songs back it duplicated all of my songs. So I went through and tried to manually delete the doubles in my music folder. totally deleted itunes, ipod, etc. Reinstalled itunes. And this time it doubled my songs again. When I search for where the song is listed it points me to the song in my music folder and also to the same song in the itunes music folder found in my music;itunes;music folder. How do I keep the songs from duplicating from itunes and my music. This didn't happy the first time around. The song is only listed once in the my music folder. Help

It sounds as though you have got in a terrible muddle and you haven't explained exactly what you did.
If all the music files you want are in:
My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music
And they are not duplicated there although copies exist in other places.
And you don't mind losing playlists, playcounts and ratings, you could adopt the nuclear approach:
Close iTunes, drag the file iTunes Library.itl to your desktop. Then open itunes, which forces iTunes to create a new empty library. Now use "add folder to library" to add the:
My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music folder
to your library. If you are completely satisfied that you have all your tracks there, music files can be deleted from other places, but only when you are certain!
If you don't fancy that, you could look at third pary software to help you out. iTsync is one that claims to be able to find and remove duplicate tracks.
http://www.itsyncsoftware.com/itsync.htm
But there are other programs around.
If what I said doesn't fit your situation ask again with more details.

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