Duplication of tunes - why does I-Tunes do that?

I've read all of the posts on duplicates and obviously there is no easy way to 'bulk remove' duplicates - you have to go through them one at a time. However when I click 'show dupliates' it comes up with +11,000 tunes (I have a rather large collection).
All I would like to know is, why does i-Tunes duplicate the songs? I can understnd duplicates because a tune is in 2 different places or its on 2 different discs but it seems to just duplicate songs (sometime 3 or 4 at a time) for no reason.
I'm just curious to know why.

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