Duplication of music and bookmarks

I installed iCloud. After setting up my computer, iPhone and iPad I noticed that I had many duplications of my favorites and music. I don't know what the cause and solutions are?

Off the top of my head, two suggestions:
1. Have you considered purchasing a used iBook/MacBook? Personally, I would rather have one of those than a new, budget-priced Windows PC; especially if I were purchasing the thing solely for use with iTunes. The Windows version does not integrate with the operating system as well as the Mac version does, for obvious reasons.
2. What Meg said. A terabyte internal hard drive will give you plenty of space, and is a lot cheaper than a second computer.

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